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Although he trails in nearly all national surveys and polls of most battleground states, DonaldTrump still has a potential route to victory, albeit a difficult one that would require him to coax many people who sat out the last election to vote this time around, the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Daybreak tracking poll finds.
The existence of a bloc of disaffected voters large enough to potentially swing the electionTrump’s way is the main finding from an analysis of the first eight weeks of the daily tracking poll.
Whether Trump can convert a significant number of those potential supporters into voters over the final two months of the presidential campaign could determine whether the election ends up as a close contest or a runaway for Hillary Clinton.
That group of potential voters also helps explain why the Daybreak poll’s results have consistently been more favorable to Trump than other major surveys.
The key group driving that result are people who sat out the 2012 election but say they plan to vote this year. Trump, who’s due to give a major speech on immigration Wednesday, leads among them in the poll. He trails Clinton among those who voted four years ago or were too young to do so.
The design of the Daybreak poll means it reflects, more strongly than some other surveys, the views of those who didn’t vote before but say they will this year. As a result, the poll presents something of a best-case scenario for Trump — one in which he succeeds in getting large numbers of previous nonvoters to cast ballots for him.
Even that best case is a problematic one for the Republican nominee since he seldom does better than a tie in the poll’s results. For the last two weeks, even as most polls have shown Clinton with a significant edge over Trump, the Daybreak poll has shown the two candidates roughly even, trading narrow leads back and forth. The poll also shows that a large percentage of voters remain uncertain about their choice.
As of Tuesday morning, the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Daybreak tracking poll showedTrump ahead 45%-42%, well within the margin of error.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS POLL: http://cesrusc.org/election/
Trump’s situation is even more challenging because of the difficulty of turning nonvoters into voters, a task for which Trump’s campaign may be especially ill-suited.
Trump has not spent money on the sort of sophisticated, but labor-intensive and expensive, turnout efforts that delivered victories to President George W. Bush in 2004 and President Obama in 2008 and 2012. In one battleground state after another, reporters have found his campaign lacking even rudimentary get-out-the-vote operations.
THEN AGAIN, SOME MIGHT ARGUE TRUMP HASN’T PAID (WITH MONEY OR BLOOD) TO RIG THE ELECTION EITHER:
DNC Insider: Clinton Being Pounded in Polls – Don’t Believe Mainstream Media! (Video)
Clinton Adds +5 to Body Count in 6 Weeks Totaling 67 Dead Associates (Video)
Julian Assange Drops Bombshell Involving Murder on Hillary Clinton (Video)
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Shadow Government: WikiLeaks Exposes George Soros Controlling Clinton
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Some of Trump’s campaign rhetoric also may work against him. Early in August, for example, the Daybreak poll found a notable decline in Trump supporters’ estimate of how likely they were to vote. The drop came shortly after Trump began making widely publicized claims that the election was rigged against him. The timing could be coincidental, but might also indicate that the rhetoric about rigged elections was counterproductive by making some of Trump’s supporters see voting as futile.
In all fairness, Hillary has had her fair share of missteps as well, not the least of which is the increasing body count of anyone who dared speak out against her. In addition to the links provided above, there has been a growing interest even among some in the mainstream media to further investigate one of the 5 deaths in 6 weeks of former Clinton associates turned adversaries.
The death attracting the most attention is without a doubt former DNC staffer, Seth Rich. Sputnik News Reports:
In an interview on FoxNews with Megyn Kelly, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was cornered by the news anchor who demanded to know why the whistleblower seems to be so interested in the mysterious murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.
Only 27-years-old, Seth Rich served as the DNC’s Voter Data Director before being fatally shot in the early morning hours of July 10 during a night out in Washington, DC. Local police initially reported that the murder was a robbery that had gone wrong, but the staffer’s watch, smartphone, and wallet were still on his person when authorities examined the crime scene.
So, why was the young up-and-coming political operative murdered in cold blood, shot in the back at point blank range? Could it have been a personal relationship gone awry or was it politically motivated?
Among one of the most in debt videos I’ve seen questioning the discrepancies in the death of Seth Rich comes from Owen Shroyer, who joins Margaret Howell in studio with a special report over the mysterious deaths over the years within the Clinton administration. Questions surrounding the death of DNC Staffer Seth Rich have reemerged as a result of Julian Assange’s national media appearance, and his allusion that Rich may have been the source of the DNC email leak, the email leak that may have led to his death. The video also discusses the mysterious death of attorney Sean Lucas, who was found dead in his Washington DC home after serving the DNC a lawsuit.
In contrast with the Daybreak poll, other surveys have shown the race tightening recently, but not enough to erase Clinton’s lead. Averages of recent public polls have Clinton ahead bysix or seven percentage points.
HOWEVER DO NOT FORGET THE FOLLOWING:
DNC Insider: Clinton Being Pounded in Polls – Don’t Believe Mainstream Media! (Video)
New Polls Are Being Rigged for Hillary Up to 9 Points (Video)
Clinton also holds significant leads in polls of key states that have been closely divided in recent elections. Those include Virginia and Colorado, where the Democrats have stopped buying additional television advertising time because they no longer feel it necessary, and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, must-win states for Trump where the most recent surveys show him losing by big margins.
The Daybreak poll’s divergence from that trend has attracted attention from all sides, with Republicans citing it as a hopeful indicator and Democrats as a warning against complacency.
The poll has a very different methodology than most other surveys. Some elements of the methodology have drawn criticism from some analysts; others have defended it.
Analysis of the polling data makes clear where most of the difference between the Daybreak poll and other surveys comes from. The poll respondents who did not vote in 2012 are disproportionately whites who did not graduate from college — Trump’s strongest supporters. Almost six in 10 of the 2012 nonvoters fall into that group. By contrast, non-college-educated whites make up about four in 10 of the poll respondents who did vote four years ago.
Given those demographics, it’s no surprise that Trump does significantly better with the 2012 nonvoters than with people who cast a ballot last time around. And because the Daybreak poll includes more of those previous nonvoters than some other surveys, Trump performs better in its forecast.
As of Tuesday, Trump led by seven points among those who could have voted in 2012 but didn’t. Clinton led by two points among those who voted four years ago or were too young to vote then, the Daybreak poll found. Among whites without a college degree who did not vote in 2012, Trump led Clinton by more than 2-1, the poll found.
The Daybreak poll may represent the views of those potential voters more heavily than most surveys do because of the way it’s structured.
All polls adjust their data to ensure that their samples match known demographics — the correct share of men versus women, young versus old, white versus nonwhite — a process known as weighting.
The Daybreak poll goes a step further and weights the sample to match how people voted in 2012. Because of that weighting, about 40% of the poll respondents are people who were old enough to vote four years ago, but did not.
That share accurately reflects the U.S. population, although it could overstate the impact those people will have on this year’s election.
To take into account the fact that many people don’t vote, the poll asks respondents to rate their likelihood of voting on a scale from 0 to 100. The more likely they say they are to vote, the more heavily they weigh in the poll’s outcome. That’s very different from the approach most surveys take in which a person either is included entirely or excluded entirely from the poll sample.
Currently, those who did not vote in 2012 give themselves on average a 58% chance of voting this time. That’s considerably less than the 92% average given by those who did vote four years ago. But it may still be too high — surveys routinely find that people overestimate their likelihood of voting.
If those who did not vote four years ago overestimate how likely they are to vote this time, the poll could be weighted too heavily by their views. Weighting the sample to match what people say about their 2012 vote can introduce other errors as well.
By contrast, standard polls can cause an error in the opposite direction. They generally use a person’s voting history as one factor in a process designed to screen for likely voters. Those polls may discard entirely the views of many people who didn’t vote in past elections. Not all polling organizations disclose how they screen for likely voters.
While the Daybreak poll may overestimate the number of previous nonvoters who will cast ballots this time round, a strong likely voter screen can blind a poll to the possibility that an unconventional candidate — like Trump — may draw in voters who haven’t participated before.
But polls are snapshots. Until all the votes are tallied after election day, there’s no way to know which approach best fits this year’s electorate.
In closing, in the final video below Peter Schiff gives offers his explanation after the 2008 election for not just how Barack Obama got elected, but also how we as Americans ultimately determine all our elected officials. The video is about 5 minutes, and the first half you may wonder where he’s going with it, but the second half is hysterical…. sad, and true… but hysterical.
Article posted with permission from The Last Great Stand. Article by Michael DePinto.
