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View Poll Results: NBC calls race in August - how do you vote?
I am a Trump voter and will vote anyway in November. 3 37.50%
I am a Trump voter and now will not bother voting. 1 12.50%
I am a Clinton voter and will vote anyway in November. 3 37.50%
I am a Clinton voter and now will not bother voting. 1 12.50%
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Old 08-15-2016, 03:01 PM
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do you have a link to the article where someone was already declared the winner, when early voting hasn't even begun??
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Old 08-15-2016, 03:33 PM
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do you have a link to the article where someone was already declared the winner, when early voting hasn't even begun??
Here is the article that the map above came from:

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/firs...0851?cid=sm_tw
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Old 08-15-2016, 04:01 PM
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Fun watching everyone smugly dispatching Trump by validating that opinion with the exact same polls that scoffed at him until June. LOL.

Will still gladly book Nate Silver's prediction of 5-1
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Gallup had Dukakis up by 17 at this point in 1988.
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Fun watching everyone smugly dispatching Trump by validating that opinion with the exact same polls that scoffed at him until June. LOL.

Will still gladly book Nate Silver's prediction of 5-1
Me too if I can find someone dumb enough to give me 2 times what the actual market is. But of course I would cover my exposure by laying the 5/2 in the real world as I assume you would.
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Fun watching everyone smugly dispatching Trump by validating that opinion with the exact same polls that scoffed at him until June. LOL.

Will still gladly book Nate Silver's prediction of 5-1
With bookies here in NY Hillary is -450 and Trump is + 300. Last week she was -500.
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Here is the article that the map above came from:

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/firs...0851?cid=sm_tw
And it was as i figured....
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And it was as i figured....
I wasn't looking for it - it's all over the internet today. Apparently people are taking offense to a "fait accompli" tone to the coverage.
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I wasn't looking for it - it's all over the internet today. Apparently people are taking offense to a "fait accompli" tone to the coverage.
Polling doesnt mean squat. A race cannot be called before voting has even begun.
What is funny is the article you cite does not call it a fait accompli, but your thread title sure does.
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