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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:07 PM May 2016

Bernie supporters want to have it both ways when it comes to the polls

If a poll comes out showing Hillary beating Bernie in a certain state, then it's meaningless because polls are wrong. We are then promptly reminded of Michigan and Indiana.

But when a poll comes out showing Bernie performing better against Trump than Hillary, that's proof that Bernie is teh awesome.

It's hard to keep up with all this.

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Bernie supporters want to have it both ways when it comes to the polls (Original Post) Cali_Democrat May 2016 OP
Glad to see you accept all the polls including the ones where your candidate is tanking whatchamacallit May 2016 #1
Bernie is losing to a candidate who is tanking? Cali_Democrat May 2016 #2
She got way out ahead early, but the recent trend tells a different story. whatchamacallit May 2016 #3
This new Poll is Crap MFM008 May 2016 #6
Actually, Secretary Clinton got out to an early lead and has continually added to that SFnomad May 2016 #9
How do you explain Bernie being smashed in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland? Cali_Democrat May 2016 #10
Bernie fans haven't said a peep about him only being one point better in FL than Hillary today. CrowCityDem May 2016 #4
Here's another double standard wyldwolf May 2016 #5
Clinton is running a dishonest and dirty campaign. Rass May 2016 #7
Welcome to DU. Juicy_Bellows May 2016 #8
thanks Rass May 2016 #11
To be fair PATRICK May 2016 #12

MFM008

(19,821 posts)
6. This new Poll is Crap
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:18 PM
May 2016

I dont believe any poll. In 2012 they said Romney was gonna win.
Quinnipiacs poll is not just wrong its garbage. So would a poll that said HRC was winning by 100 points.
ALL polls are crap.

 

SFnomad

(3,473 posts)
9. Actually, Secretary Clinton got out to an early lead and has continually added to that
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:25 PM
May 2016

lead ever since.

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
10. How do you explain Bernie being smashed in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland?
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:26 PM
May 2016

Hillary accumulated a large number of pledged delegates from those beat downs.

 

CrowCityDem

(2,348 posts)
4. Bernie fans haven't said a peep about him only being one point better in FL than Hillary today.
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:13 PM
May 2016

At least according to that horribly flawed poll. You would think that, if Bernie is really so much stronger, he would be far and away ahead everywhere. They don't want to face facts that he is at his high water mark, because he hasn't faced an iota of personal attacks, and that his numbers would plummet if he ever got the nomination.

wyldwolf

(43,870 posts)
5. Here's another double standard
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:16 PM
May 2016

"My Republican friend told me he was voting BERNIE!!!" -type posts = GOOD!
Hillary actively courting disgruntled Republicans = BAD!!!!!

 

Rass

(112 posts)
7. Clinton is running a dishonest and dirty campaign.
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:21 PM
May 2016

Why do you expect people to treat it as a fair and honest election? We can also thank the corporate media for limiting Bernie's coverage and ignoring Hillary's dishonesty. Trump is not going to hold back.

PATRICK

(12,228 posts)
12. To be fair
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:54 PM
May 2016

all campaigns are unfair in their enthusiasm to claim the better something or other. The GOP screwed polling and polling has not kept up with professional campaign's internals or non-national elections where the sheer numbers lends an aura of predictability. Nor the technology of finding the samples to being with.

The real issues are the conduct of the campaign, the election and possibly sorting out the trends and litigating the corpses of the primaries.

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