Polls tighten for Trump, Clinton

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Polls are tightening in the presidential race with less than two weeks to go before Election Day.

Some new surveys show Democrat Hillary Clinton’s national polling edge narrowing and Republican Donald Trump performing more strongly in the swing state of Florida.

Trump still faces a steep uphill climb, and the Electoral College map is extremely challenging for him. But the movement in the poll numbers gives his campaign hope after perhaps the worst phase of his campaign.

A new Bloomberg poll in Florida gave Trump a 2-point edge on Wednesday. In the RealClearPolitics (RCP) polling average in the Sunshine State, Clinton’s edge has been eroded from 4 percentage points on Oct. 21 to 1.6 points now. In the RCP national average, Clinton’s lead has softened from 7.1 points on Oct. 17 to 5.1 points now.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/302956-polls-tighten-for-trump-clinton

[Farmgirl1961]

1. Ugh.....

Really???

[SDANation]

2. No it's not. The media wants their horse race.

[Proud liberal 80]

3. I wonder if the pundits and MSM realize

That trump can win all the toss up states including Florida, but still lose.

[Cryptoad]

4. Seems that this Bloombery poll is the

outlier,,,,,,,,,, it the only FL poll in over a month that has Trump Ahead......nice try

[Foggyhill]

5. Same "news" despite 2 polls saying that polled at the same yine

So, how is this breaking news at all

There is. I tightening

I think a course in stats and polling should be mandatory for any journalist

[Kingofalldems]

6. There you go again.

[vadermike]

7. Well

If trump wins I will I don't know ugh ugh wtf? Please tell me this isn't happening GOTV !!

[PSPS]

8. This is about Florida and they really had to dig deep for a silly poll suitable for their horse race

[GreydeeThos]

9. Translation: Advertising time just got more expensive

Profits for the Media are projected to climb right up to November the eighth.

[Helen Borg]

10. 538 kinda says so too...

And if you look a their main graph it looks that way. But 8 Nov is around the corner...

[rtracey]

11. ummmm really?

"The data, however, offers a lot of opportunities for cherry-picking, both because there are a lot of polls and because they don’t agree all that much with one another. That’s especially true of national polls.1 Recent national surveys show everything from a 14-percentage-point Clinton lead to a 1-point lead for Trump. On average, that works out to a Clinton lead of 5 to 6 points — but there’s a lot of variation."

[democrattotheend]

12. Good. I want them to tighten

So that people like my friend I talked to last night, who would vote for Obama again in a heartbeat but says he can't vote for Clinton in Pennsylvania, will hopefully come to their senses. He said he would probably reconsider if the polls were closer, though he couldn't say for sure that he would be able to vote for her. He strongly objects to her foreign policy and that is the biggest issue for him.