Clinton camp on new survey showing Trump ahead: It’s ‘bad polling’

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico

By LOUIS NELSON 11/01/16 03:09 PM EDT

While Donald Trump’s campaign has celebrated an ABC/Washington Post survey released Tuesday that shows the Manhattan billionaire with a 1 percentage point edge, the campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton chalked up the new numbers to “bad polling.”

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Clinton’s senior aide told the traveling press that the former secretary of state’s campaign always expected the race to tighten and that Trump began closing the gap after the third presidential debate. The aide said the Manhattan billionaire has gained on Clinton because “Republicans started to come home to Trump” and said the Democrat’s campaign has seen no evidence that Comey’s revelation has hurt it significantly in the polls.

“The race has tightened in a way we thought it would tighten, but we do not see anything that would suggest that that FBI story is impacting it,” the aide said. “I wouldn’t say what our internals show, but we think that we have a relatively substantial national lead.”

The Clinton campaign’s “bad polls” assessment of the ABC/Washington Post survey puts it in line with Trump surrogate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who dismissed it Tuesday morning on Twitter “Washington Post-ABC poll is an absurdity,” he wrote. “Trump has not moved up 13 points in the last 8 days. He was NEVER 12 points behind. Ignore polls.”




Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/clinton-campaign-bad-poll-abc-washington-post-230591

[uawchild]

1. Who's making money yanking us around with these polls?

The media, of course. Who else?

[Helen Borg]

14. Yup... The media has to create drama.

Otherwise, why would people pay attention instead of doing something useful with their life?

[maxsolomon]

2. frankly, i'd love for HRC to lose the popular vote

and win the electoral college.

I'd ROFL for 4 years.

[moonscape]

3. Frankly, I'd prefer Hillary trounce in popular vote. I don't

want to think more Americans would vote for him, so guess have no sense of humor about the alternative. Too distressing.

[maxsolomon]

4. i believe she will trounce him.

I'm trying to find humor where I can this week, even gallows humor.

[moonscape]

7. I understand. I'm usually good with Black Humor ... catch me on any other topic :) n/t

[INdemo]

13. Its worrisome that here in the United States there are that many voters that would

vote for a Fascist. At this point it seems possible that if Trump wore a swastika arm band at his rallies he would not lose any support.
I want to see Hillary trounce him also and on November 9th I want to see him whisked away in handcuffs charged with Treason,vote tampering and I want to read about his bankruptcies in a few months,

[Grey Lemercier]

5. it is interesting (suspicious?) that when you put Stein and Johnson into the mix Trump gains more

Johnson is at 3%
Stein 2%


Clinton loses 3 points to Trumps one when those 2 are added into the mix.

I have seen other polls like this too, so both Stein and Johnson are pulling more from Sec Clinton than from trump in most polls.

[riversedge]

10. If there is a silver lining in that -they do not want Trump.

[Grey Lemercier]

11. maybe I wasnt clear, when its a 4 way race Clinton loses more

than Trump does, so the 3rd party people are totally aiding Trump.

Johnson is also higher than 3% in many swings states and he is obviiusly pulling from Clinton, as is Stein

[vadermike]

6. Well

Survey USA just did a poll in NC that has trump way ahead I hope it wrong if not we may be looking at trump pulling this out wtf? I'm terrified

[Jason1961]

8. Sounds plausible

I wouldn't put anything past our Media

[PSPS]

9. But, horse race! Honest!!1! Stay tuned! More after these messages!!11!!1!

[StevieM]

12. I am very scared but, then again, I have been scared all along. We should all be terrified

by the prospect of a Trump presidency and do everything in our power to prevent it.

I went canvassing this weekend. It helped me feel better to actually be working for Hillary rather than simply focusing on the attempt by James Comey and Jason Chaffetz to steal the election through their illegal activity.

[George II]

15. This isn't "news", it's analysis.

[SansACause]

16. It's a national poll.

National polls are only meaningful in that they can predict what the House might look like. The state polls are more important. I'm still not sure about the NC one today. Trump gained 8-9 points there in one weekend?

[broadcaster75201]

17. While I tend to ignore BOTH sides comments on polls ...

... from what I have read about this poll it is an absurdity. Their LV assumptions are way off.