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Old 05-03-2016, 08:15 AM  
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Originally Posted by bronco67 View Post
If you look at the non-polling articles on Rasmussen, it looks like any other conservative rag. Also, there's this..

Is Rasmussen Reports Biased? | FiveThirtyEight

Don't put any stock in what they say. If some reputable website with no political bias wants to say Trump is leading, then I'll believe that. But not these guys.

If Trump was leading, Five Thirty Eight would say so.

It's funny Robbie...only a small handful of polls have Trump with a slight lead, and you're ready to call it.
RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - General Election: Trump vs. Clinton
What I'm saying is that this is the LATEST and first major poll that has shown this trend.

The Real Clear Politics isn't as recent as this one and as I understand it, it sort of averages out all the polling (which makes it overall more correct...but perhaps not as up to date yet).

As for Five Thirty Eight...a few days ago they had CRUZ winning Indiana handily. Now they just changed that (rather abruptly) to an estimate of Trump winning big in Indiana.

Polls are important and generally show what's happening. Sometimes they get some bad data.
Maybe that new Rasmussen poll is incorrect. But it's still the first time that any major respected poll has shown Trump winning over Clinton.

As for it being a "conservative rag"...on that point I have no idea. But if it is...then they certainly would NOT be trying to "help" Trump with fake polling.
In case you didn't notice the entire conservative movement of the Republican Party has been doing everything they can to "stop Trump".

They see him as a very liberal progressive New York Democrat in Republican clothing.
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