Archive for October 21st, 2016

Proof: Foreigners are disrupting the election process …

October 21, 2016

Psst: It’s not the Russians

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Let’s start with a couple of caveats and disclaimers:

1. Breitbart is real far right … very pro-Trump.

2. This isn’t a “scientific” analysis

3. This certainly doesn’t answer the question: who won the debate.

That said, I thought this was pretty interesting.

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Most overnight “click polls” had Trump winning the first 2 debates.

So, a cottage industry developed to trash those polls as “unscientific”.

Now that didn’t stop CNN from gleefully reporting “even far-right website Breitbart’s overnight poll had Hillary Clinton winning the final presidential debate by 6 percentage points”.

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Kudos to Breitbart for reporting the numbers; shame-shame to CNN for reversing course legitimizing click-polls.

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Well, Breitbart dug into the numbers to figure out what was going on.

Here’s what they found …..

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About the “accept results” dust-up …

October 21, 2016

OK, Trump made a tactical mistake by being bluntly truthful on the question: “Will you commit today to accept the results of the election?”

He should have said: “Sure, just like Gore in 2000.  Once all the related legal processes are settled and the results are certified, I’ll abide by the election results.”

But, he didn’t … so, Dems and the MSM got challenge his patriotism, commitment to the Constitution, blah-blah-blah.

Sample, the Atlantic:

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Too bad, because it would have been great to have had coverage of the other big issues that surfaced during the debate: open borders, free trade, 2nd amendment, tax & spend, pay-to- play, tiered justice system, religious freedom, partial-birth abortion, etc.

The best part of the debate (my opinion) was that Chris Wallace got Trump & Clinton to stake out their positions on most of those issues.

Of course, there was bobbing & weaving, but the sharp contrasts in positions were laid out.

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Now, back to the concession dust-up ….

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