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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow do you KNOW your campaign is losing?
The only poll that really matters is on election day, Ind. Gov. Mike Pence says on Today Show.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2016-08-05/pence-on-today-show-downplays-polls-that-show-trump-slipping?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2016-08-05/pence-on-today-show-downplays-polls-that-show-trump-slipping?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics
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How do you KNOW your campaign is losing? (Original Post)
brooklynite
Aug 2016
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Orsino
(37,428 posts)1. When it never really began.
There may be a way to win the White House without building or employing a national organization, but Trump ain't it. He imagined himsrlf an exception to this rule, or wasn't aware of it, but per the old joke he's not even wrong.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)2. A politician who says polls don't matter to them
is lying to your face
underpants
(182,823 posts)3. Their polls earlier this week must have shown what we are seeing now
The RNC (and DNC) do polling in their own. They must have seen earlier in the week what we are seeing now. That's why all the talk of interventions and suicidal staff.
major debacle
(508 posts)4. When Trump was up in several national and state polls after RNC...
... he proudly posted those polls to his Twitter account, but has been oddly silent about polls lately.