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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
I do not agree. He will be within 3 points by debate, IMHO. The debate will be the next hinge, barring some unforeseen disaster. It is a mistake for anyone to count him out.
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I completely disagree.
The vast majority of the polls say he is anywhere from six to ten points behind, which is staggering this close to the election. Ninety percent of the population claim to have already made their decision, and early voting starts soon. Even if Trump does well during the debates, which is highly unlikely, it will be too little too late.
I also do not see Trump doing well during the debates. If you look back over the Republican debates, they never really debated any of the issues. There was so many people debating that the individual messages got lost and Trump dominated the debates because he was big news then. Trump cannot debate the facts; He cannot seem to come up with a plan for the most important aspect of his campaign (immigration). Trump's plan for the VA is to cut waste, improve services, and increase locations while cutting costs which sounds great but he doesn't tell us how he is going to do this. It seems all of his "plans" are very much the same - "this is what we are doing to do, but we aren't going to tell you how we plan on doing it". Clinton is a veteran political operative here and knows how to prep for a debate; Trump has never debated at this level and is being prepped by a bunch of people that have no clue of what they are doing.
The Republican line of attack against Clinton has backfired. Dozens of investigations, tens of thousands of emails, and still no charges and no smoking gun. I tend to believe that where there is smoke there is fire, but so far we haven't even found any smoke. As I type this right now it's 7:48am and I have CNN on and they are talking about how the FBI is going to release it's "notes" about the email investigation. This will be more of the same - no smoking gun, no smoke, no charges.
But of course we'll have another investigation.