re: #65 lawhawk

Trump and Rassmussen are both touting that he got to 50% in the Rassmussen polling.

Woo.

Rassmussen goes further, by claiming that they nailed the national polling and a Trump win.

Umm… they didn’t. Other pollsters got the national polling right - Clinton won popular vote by 2 points, so anyone that had polling showing Clinton winning was on the money in that respect. How that 2 point margin was distributed across the nation made all the difference, and Rassmussen had no way of knowing that all of under 100,000 votes in a handful of states would mean the difference between the nonstop drumbeat of a GOP demanding impeachment over nonexistent issues, and Trump engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors all enabled by a complicit GOP.

Trump got a lower percentage of the popular vote than Romney. He won the election because a combination of the FBI, MSM and the Russians convinced just enough of the electorate that Clinton was too corrupt to vote for. Trump is unlikely to get to face a Democratic nominee as easy to demonize as Clinton was in 2020.