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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:35 PM Mar 2016

Donald Trump is not beating Hillary Clinton in the polls, no matter how many times he says it



Donald Trump legitimately does not care about what polls actually say; he cares about what he can say about the polls.

He likes to talk about polls because polls are usually pretty good for him, at least since last July when he stormed into the lead in the Republican field. Polls serve as validation for his dominance, and so he talks about them as a slightly more subtle way of calling himself a winner. Last September, he suggested that he put so much weight on the polls that if his support started to crumble, he'd drop out. Obviously that didn't happen.

There's one set of polling that Trump likes to talk about, though, that is at odds with this pattern. Trump frequently talks and tweets about how polls show him beating Hillary Clinton, when in fact polls almost always show the exact opposite.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/24/donald-trump-is-not-beating-hillary-clinton-in-the-polls-no-matter-how-many-times-he-says-it/
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Donald Trump is not beating Hillary Clinton in the polls, no matter how many times he says it (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 OP
Well no kidding. He is obnoxious. Kalidurga Mar 2016 #1
Only the extreme left and right believe Donald Drumpf can win cosmicone Mar 2016 #2

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
1. Well no kidding. He is obnoxious.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:37 PM
Mar 2016

It's a good thing his demeanor isn't more like Kasich. That guy is scary how he can hide the cray cray.

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