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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
Welp, we have no reason not to believe the polls so I guess you are right.
The idea that Sanders could beat Trump in a debate is laughable. Last year was likely the best year possible for him to run since so many people were still feeling beat up from the obama economy. 4 years later isn't just another 4 years older bernie will be. It is also 4 years removed from slow economic growth, it will likely be 4 years of strong economic growth and 4 years to think about what pro-growth economic policy did for this country and how liberal economic policies aren't the way forward. He would have a better chance of winning in 2020 had hillary won.
I really don't know why I'm debating this with you. It doesn't matter. He is done and you need to move on.
When you're dishonest the core you see whatever you want to see.
Like how someone can look at a president who's poised to take a giant steaming dump on free trade and see him as a champion of economic growth. It's the epitome of putting distributional issues above wealth creation.
Good thing / bad thing? Who knows. Trump definitely doesn't. The working class people who revere him as a business god sure don't. His advisers may, just like clintons advisors may have been effective despite her being useless.
But you're suggesting that the general public will get hard for trump 4 years from now because of economic indicators that're weakly correlated to the decisions made by a president? You know that makes no sense. This is pointless speculation.
The pollsters were wrong because they were overly confident in their methods, and they ended up off by about 5 points in a couple of key states, pretty close to the mark in a lot of others and in some states clinton outperformed. Polls aren't perfect. But they aren't meaningless and bernie was beating trump by significantly larger margins in hypothetical polls during the primaries.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dat...ton-or-n570766
It was clinton winning the popular vote by 5 vs bernie winning the popular vote by 13 at some arbitrary point in time. And this is despite the DNC trying to crush him to make way for clinton. We'll never know what the real numbers would have been but there's no evidence that he'd be lacking popular support.