(11-28-2016 08:33 PM)olliebaba Wrote: When Killary conceded I gave up caring how many EC votes he wound up with. How many did he eventually garner?
232.
She was behind in the polls in Florida and North Carolina, but the Dems tales of all the Hispanics they registered in Florida and the early voting in NC (which other people had debunked as an indicator of anything) convinced even Fox that she would win those states. But you had to ignore the polls to assume that. Trump people asked the Fox people on Friday why they were focusing on North Carolina. They felt it was in the bag.
NV and PA showed similar patterns with MI somewhat similar. Trump lead the Nevada average in RCP, but the last 5 polls were Trump +6, tie, Trump +1, HRC +2, HRC +1. HRC lead PA, but the last 5 polls were HRC +2, HRC +2, tie, HRC +4, Trump +1. MI showed HRC +4, +5, +5, +5, Trump +2. In each case the one leading the average trailed in the latest polls and lost. MSM ignored the polls that showed Trump doing well because they didn't match what they wanted to believe.
HRC lead NH but only because of one flaky poll that showed her +11. That state ended up less than 2,000 votes different.
WI was the one that was different, but there was only one poll taken as late as November 1 and 2 and none later. It showed HRC with 4 to 8 point leads. In NV, PA and MI, the polls after the 2nd were the ones showing a change.
You had to selectively chose your polls to not know it was going to be a very close election. But that is what the Democrats and MSM did.