When Trump supporters make fun of the polls showing Trump losing remember these arguments

[Quixote1818]

I had to refresh my brain to remember a few of these in a discussion last night:


1. The National Polls were very close and Hillary won by several million votes.

2. Comey / FBI saying Hillary was under investigation several days before voting was undoubtedly enough bad press to cause her to lose by razor thin margins in PA, WI and MI costing her the election and making the polls look off.

3. Trump got trounced during the midterms and the polls were predicting less of a blue wave than what actually happened.

4. If they say Hillary only won the popular vote because of "illegal" votes in California just shoot back by saying something like: "Just because Trump who stole from his own children's cancer charity and created a fake University to rip people off says it's so doesn't mean it's true. Not to mention his voter fraud investigation came up empty handed.

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[Cartoonist]

1. 2 is BS

There is such a huuuuge difference between Hillary and Trump that I can't believe more than two or three people were still on the fence just days before the election. And Comey's announcement was nothing new.

This is just pacifying nonsense.

[Quixote1818]

2. Wrong

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/

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[crickets]

3. +1

[Cartoonist]

4. What happened on October 16?

[Quixote1818]

5. Her polling wavered between a drop of 1 and .5 points for almost two weeks

That is not statistically significant. The ski slope after the Comey letter is statistically significant. The margin was paper thin in PA, WI and MI. A fraction of a percent in each state. If Comes letter even cost her 1% that was enough to cost her the election in those states.

[Cartoonist]

6. Not buying it

That's how I feel.

The only point I am trying to make is that there are many things about the election that are a problem. The Comey thing ain't one of them.

[Wounded Bear]

7. "The Comey Thing" most certainly was significant...

Remember that she was cleared, but Comey spent 20 minutes editorializing about her "poor handling of classified data."

That had faded a bit, Comey announcing a week before the election that she was under investigation again, brought back all of that bullshit.

All part and parcel of the "her emails" campaign.

[lame54]

9. I don't agree with you at all...

Comey neutralized the Access Hollywood tape which was sinking Trump

[uponit7771]

8. 5. Red Don did worse than rMoney nationally it was 5 states were 3rd parties over performed by ...

... unprecedented margins that gave Red Don the EC win.

There's no way anyone can make the case that Red Don expanded his "winless" base beyond 2016 more than dems have.