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In reply to the discussion: Comey interview was outstanding! [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Things aren't so just because you think they must be. There is either some indication or there's not. There isn't, that I've ever seen.
I researched this and did a document looking at the polls leading up to the election. The polls did not indicate that Clinton took any hit at all after the October surprise, and in fact, she increased in a couple of the polls.
One poll that DID show a switch from Clinton leading to Trump leading by 4: One with Jill Stein in the mix. With Jill Stein in the mix, Clinton was behind in the poll. Same poll, with Stein removed, Clinton was in the lead.
Stein took votes from her. Stein was connected to Russia. And of course Russia was trying to hack election systems (fact) and had 10,000 or more agents/trolls working the internet with fake accounts and such.
I understand why people think so. I did, too, at first. Until I really looked at it. Evidence shows that he didn't cause her to lose.
If you remember, the LAST polls before election night showed Clinton in the lead in almost all of 13 polls. Small leads, for sure. But leading. I don't recall any election where a candidate was leading to that extent, and lost. It was rigged, all right. And Stein was put in, to siphon off votes, courtesy of Russia.