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global1

(25,251 posts)
Fri Nov 4, 2016, 09:09 AM Nov 2016

Come On People - It Can't Be Both Ways - I Stopped Watching MSM Cable News & Polls....

now do I have to stop coming to DU as well until Nov 9th?

The Polls this close to the election are all bogus and MSM Cable news wants to make this a horse race for ratings, greed and ad money. So over a week or so ago I stopped watching cable news shows and stopped looking at poll numbers. Both were making me crazy. I took to reading, watching entertaining programs on TV and puttering around the house on all sorts of need to do projects.

And now look at the posts around here - they paint two very different pictures:

1, The race is tightening and Trump is making a surge and will win

and

2. Hillary is going to win this election on Tuesday by a landslide


It is either one or the other but we're seeing both such posts here at DU.

Which to believe?

Why is DU parroting the same crap as MSM & the polls?

I give up. I surrender.

Do I have to stop coming here to DU now until Nov 9th as well?





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Come On People - It Can't Be Both Ways - I Stopped Watching MSM Cable News & Polls.... (Original Post) global1 Nov 2016 OP
I'd be happy if people would just stop quoting "national polls" as they are irrelevant PoliticAverse Nov 2016 #1
Of course, so far today… regnaD kciN Nov 2016 #4
Let's wet our finger and stick it in the air. CentralMass Nov 2016 #2

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
1. I'd be happy if people would just stop quoting "national polls" as they are irrelevant
Fri Nov 4, 2016, 09:11 AM
Nov 2016

since we elect Presidents based on state by state elector elections.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
4. Of course, so far today…
Fri Nov 4, 2016, 09:22 AM
Nov 2016

…we've had two good national polls (ABC/WaPo and Reuters/Ipsos) and one bad state poll (UMass/Lowell of NH) so go figure…

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