Trump gains on Clinton, poll shows 'rigged' message resonates

[RandySF]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gained on his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton among American voters this week, cutting her lead nearly in half, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling released on Friday.

The polling data showed Trump's argument that the Nov. 8 election is "rigged" against him has resonated with members of his party.

"Remember folks, it's a rigged system," Trump told a Pennsylvania rally on Friday. "That's why you've got to get out and vote, you've got to watch. Because this system is totally rigged."

Clinton led Trump 44 percent to 40 percent, according to the Oct. 14-20 Reuters/Ipsos poll, a 4-point lead. That compared with 44 percent for Clinton and 37 percent for Trump in the Oct. 7-13 poll released last week.

An average of national opinion polls by RealClearPolitics shows Clinton 6.2 percentage points ahead at 48.1 percent support to Trump's 41.9 percent.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN12L1UI

[Charles Bukowski]

1. It resonates with imbeciles

namely Republican voters.

Laughable headline regardless.

[still_one]

2. Screw the national polls. It is just noise to push a horse race

[RBInMaine]

13. The SAME polls DAILY TRACKER has her up 9 points. It's manipulating to try to create a horserace.

[still_one]

15. My point was that I am focusing on the State polls because that is what really matters

[bluestateguy]

18. Exactly. The reuters site lets you monkey with the samples as you see fit.

As of 10/20, it's Hillary by 8.5 in a likely voter screen in a 4 way race.

In the registered voter screen she leads by 9.8 in a 4 way race.

[Foggyhill]

3. BS, the diff from last poll is within the god damn margin of error, Reuters is now as bad as AP

In fabricating editorialized news
Also, a poll with a big margin of error is not a god damn trend asswipes.
Funny how this is the only fracking poll showing this tightening, another poll the same day had +10%

[helpisontheway]

4. I hope this is an outlier

However, last time we said the same thing when polls started to show the race tightening. Hard to believe that there are that many stupid people but u never know..

[Foggyhill]

5. There is no tightening. Do you really believe people are changing their minds or they just hit

a different group of people in polling. I'm actually tired of seeing this kind of response to this crap.

The news feeds are now as bad as Fox News in ethics

[RBInMaine]

12. The daily tracker for the SAME poll has Hillary up +9. It's bullshit manipulation of the data.

[Foggyhill]

6. What disturbs me is the amount of editorializing in this so called news based on essentially no fact

[kysrsoze]

7. I've got to think D-Bag Donald is alienating more people with this nonsense

All the idiots/deplorables were already onboard. How that f***ing moron could grab more voters by squawking about the supposed rigged election is beyond me. If anything, I could see some of them being despondent... thinking their vote just doesn't matter. Maybe they're mad now, but they may stay home on Election Day.

I just don't buy it. This is the only recent poll I've seen which supposedly indicated a tightening in the race.

[bluestateguy]

8. She's up 8.5 in that poll

the reporters are just trying to torture the data.

http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TM651Y15_26/filters/LIKELY:1

[MFM008]

9. They have to talk about

Something for 17 days.

[stonecutter357]

10. I'm not concerned at all.

[Demsrule86]

11. BS...I don't buy it.

He is going to lose and lose big...couldn't happen to a more deserving deplorable.

[Thrill]

14. You knew it was only a

Matter of time before the media was going to create the close race narrative again

[oasis]

16. The only thing that's rigged is the Reuters poll. nt

[NCTraveler]

17. The medias attempt at correlation is laughable at best. nt.

[StevieM]

19. I do believe that Trump benefited, in a way, from the last debate.

First, he lied about Hillary deleting her emails after she got a subpoena. She chose not to respond. That looked terrible.

Second, Chris Wallace helped him out by falsely claiming that the State Department awarded contracts to reward Clinton Foundation donors.