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[Sir Alemeth]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/da...ns-momentum-against-donald-trump-poll-n650926

Among likely voters, 50 percent support Clinton and 45 percent support Trump. Among registered voters, she holds a 6-point lead over Trump — 49 percent to 43 percent. Last week, Clinton led Trump by 4 points among registered voters, 48 percent to 44 percent.

Great news!
Looks like people are finally seeing past all the lies being spewed against her!

Let's make this a landslide in Nov!!

Fuck hate! Fuck Trump!

 

[davepoobond]

My guess is its going to bounce up and down like this from now until the election. Lets hope she is on a bump on Election Day and early election days

 

[RPGCrazied]

Needs to be much higher than that before I'm satisfied. This guy deserves to get slaughtered by double digits.

 

[BSsBrolly]

Love Fucks Trump!

 

[iavi]

She was literally out sick for a week. I have no doubts the lead will return as she's back on the stump and Bams is putting himself on the ballot with her

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

It was bound to happen once she got back out there, with her surrogates in tow and Trump unable to stop being a massive dumpster fire.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

The debates are going to sink Trump.

 

[Guevara]

Looks like she's right back to where she was, pre-conventions.

A definite lead, if not exactly comfortable.

 

[Toxi]

She was literally out sick for a week. I have no doubts the lead will return as she's back on the stump and Bams is putting himself on the ballot with her

Wouldn't this poll have been taken when she was sick?

 

[Team Alucard]

Not so fast OP

 

[User1608]

This is good for Hillary and the country. Hopefully the debates are the final nails in the coffin for the racist.

 

[anaron]

Good. Fuck, I want this election to be over.

This is good for Hillary and the country. Hopefully the debates are the final nails in the coffin for the racist.

this please.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

So now the sky isn't falling?

God damnit GAF are we shitting the bed or not?

 

[entremet]

She was literally out sick for a week. I have no doubts the lead will return as she's back on the stump and Bams is putting himself on the ballot with her

She was pretty low profile for more than two weeks before that.

I have a feeling that will cost her the election.

I am not panicking and will vote for her, but I think she will stumble at the finish line. That's just what the year 2016 had been.

 

[Veelk]

I do find it helpful that the only reason they dropped is because something that was entirely out of her control....getting sick. And the moment she's better, she's back on top.

This says to me that god would literally need to strike her down with lightning to stop her, because there is nothing within Trump's control that he can do to stop her.

Lets hope God is a democrat.

 

[xxracerxx]

I look forward to the debates....oh yes.

 

[Tansut]

So now the sky isn't falling?

God damnit GAF are we shitting the bed or not?

That's my secret, Captain. I'm always shitting the bed.

 

[anaron]

She was pretty low profile for more than two weeks before that.

I have a feeling that will cost her the election.

I am not panicking and will vote for her, but I think she will stumble at the finish line. That's just what the year 2016 had been.

I mean, Bush was elected twice. It should never be underestimated how idiotic most of America truly is.

 

[Guevara]

I'm honestly dreading the debates. I'm really not sure it's possible to win a debate against a media entity like Trump. He will yell the loudest, and have the most soundbites, and get the most coverage.

 

[BriGuy]

I have a sneaking suspicion she's going to get October surprised the fuck out of contention by some over overblown bullshit. There's too much vested interest in keeping this a close race.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Debates will go like

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

I'm honestly dreading the debates. I'm really not sure it's possible to win a debate against a media entity like Trump. He will yell the loudest, and have the most soundbites, and get the most coverage.

Yeah, but will that coverage actually benefit him, considering it seems likely he will offer up plenty of terrible ideas and lines.

 

[entremet]

Yeah, but will that coverage actually benefit him, considering it seems likely he will offer up plenty of terrible ideas and lines.

Hadn't hurt him much thus far lol.

The man fabricates hings out of thin air daily but no one cares.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

That's my secret, Captain. I'm always shitting the bed.

Oh that's from that movie.... What was it...

Harry Potter abd the chamber of secrets!

See! I might be old but I get movie references!

 

[Manmademan]

Needs to be much higher than that before I'm satisfied. This guy deserves to get slaughtered by double digits.

double digits is pretty much impossible given how polarized the electorate is.

 

[Nipo]

I have a sneaking suspicion she's going to get October surprised the fuck out of contention by some over overblown bullshit. There's too much vested interest in keeping this a close race.

Info from a Russian hack is my bet. Either real or convincing enough they can't disprove it in time.

 

[Vyse The Legend]

Not so fast OP

I was just about to link to FiveThirtyEight. They updated their model two hours ago, and the race has tightened even more over the last week, due to all the health shenanigans. The gap is really tiny now.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Hadn't hurt him much thus far lol.

The man says lies daily but no one cares.

Yeah, sure but we're getting down the wire here and decisions are gonna have to be made, and the viewership will be insane.

 

[RoboPlato]

I'm still incredibly worried. I won't be satisfied until she hits 270 on Election Day.

 

[Toxi]

I'm honestly dreading the debates. I'm really not sure it's possible to win a debate against a media entity like Trump. He will yell the loudest, and have the most soundbites, and get the most coverage.

It's easy to win a debate against Donald Trump 1 on 1. He's terrible describing in-depth policy of any kind.

The problem is that you don't need to win a debate against Trump, you need to crush him. Otherwise you get the media praising him for not shitting in his pants.

 

[Oriel]

The news cycle is back focusing on yet another dumb comment to emanate from the Trump campaign. Let's hope Hillary has learnt to stay out of the media spotlight and just allow Trump do his usual thing of being a cunt. No off the cuff remarks by Clinton, just play it straight with pre-scripted speeches at rallies. That's what will keep her polling ahead of her rival.

 

[Team Alucard]

I was just about to link to FiveThirtyEight. They updated their model two hours ago, and the race has tightened even more over the last week, due to all the health shenanigans. The gap is really tiny now.

Yup.

If Trump gains another 1% on her nationally it will put NH into play and get him to 270.

 

[Super_Cobra]

Eh I'll wait for the debates before I check the polls. I'm expecting for trump to self implode during one of those debates.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Of course, if Hillary falters, it won't matter much what Trump says, because that's what we're dealing with here.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

Not so fast OP

That bottom graph has a familiar sha-- oh shit we're fucked

 

[Vyse The Legend]

It's easy to win a debate against Donald Trump 1 on 1. He's terrible describing in-depth policy of any kind.

The problem is that you don't need to win a debate against Trump, you need to crush him. Otherwise you get the media praising him for not shitting in his pants.

There's that, which will definitely happen. However, Hillary also has a VERY delicate balancing act to achieve in the first debate: she needs to appear strong against Trump, i.e. don't let him talk over her or just her around, but also cannot appear too aggressive in the process. Otherwise, you'll hear the shitty rhetoric from pundits about her losing her cool (with the undertone that it is because she's a women) -- or worse yet, a shitty tweet from Trump implying it was that time of the month/menopause or something.

 

[echoshifting]

I've decided to accept this headline uncritically for the time being, the anxiety has been awful.

 

[Blader]

I was just about to link to FiveThirtyEight. They updated their model two hours ago, and the race has tightened even more over the last week, due to all the health shenanigans. The gap is really tiny now.

The gap is always going to be tiny. No one should really expect more than a couple points difference at most regardless of who wins.

 

[smurfx]

So now the sky isn't falling?

God damnit GAF are we shitting the bed or not?

we are currently on shart mode at the moment.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Not so fast OP

I really can't wait to read your posts on election night

 

[Blader]

The news cycle is back focusing on yet another dumb comment to emanate from the Trump campaign. Let's hope Hillary has learnt to stay out of the media spotlight and just allow Trump do his usual thing of being a cunt. No off the cuff remarks by Clinton, just play it straight with pre-scripted speeches at rallies. That's what will keep her polling ahead of her rival.

That's what she did in August. It only works for so long. At some point, once you've been out of the spotlight long enough, people start to lose interest.

 

[The Silver]

I do find it helpful that the only reason they dropped is because something that was entirely out of her control....getting sick. And the moment she's better, she's back on top.

This says to me that god would literally need to strike her down with lightning to stop her, because there is nothing within Trump's control that he can do to stop her.

Lets hope God is a democrat.

Hope God isn't feeling that old testament itch

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

Single poll. Who cares?

Let's talk aggregate.

 

[Team Alucard]

Single poll. Who cares?

Let's talk aggregate.

Already posted em!

Donnie is the closest he's been since his convention.

 

[AlfonzoPalutena]

My guess is its going to bounce up and down like this from now until the election. Lets hope she is on a bump on Election Day and early election days

Same. I don't stress about the polls either way at this point. No candidate has a major lead, and I bet that will be the case all the way to November.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

So why is the gap tightening every time I look at fivethirtyeight?

 

[Giant Panda]

That's not really much of a change. Hopefully the gap widens further.

 

[Gutek]

That's only one poll. Overall you could say that Hillary is maybe stabilizing, but not improving.

Also, Trump flipped Florida recently.

As it stands, right now, Trump would only have to flip NH to win.

 

[shadow_shogun]

Each new poll got me feeling like this

 

[Ploid 3.0]

I still can't believe this is happening. Donald Trump.. I'm sitting here laughing but it's so messed up. What is going on.