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In reply to the discussion: This! This! This all day long. Without comment [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)People lie. But I think it's virtually impossible for millions to lie en masse. People are busy w/their daily lives. They really don't pick up on things like that.
Take some of the interviews I've seen of Trump voters in rural areas. They barely keep up with the news, some not knowing generally a lot about Trump. They would not have known to lie...they live in a little world where they don't keep up with civic events, facebook, etc.
As I recall there were 13 or 14 respected polls. All but one ended up being wrong. Plus, some showed a wide lead by HRC. It would be virtually impossible for all of them to be off that much.
The only one that was correct was a Republican-leaning poll.
That has never happened in our history, since polling began.
Add to that some suspicious things that Trump said before that were red flags, at least to me.
The meme he started about "the election is rigged!" That is straight out of Rove's (and Russia's) playbook...you say that ahead of time, so when and if the opponent says it later, it seems like a copycat thing or defensive, and doesn't have the impact it should.
He was in PA, where HRC had a strong lead. He says the oddest thing: "There is NO WAY I'm going to lose PA! No way! If I do...the election is rigged!" It was so odd that it caught my attention. It made no sense.
Things like that. These things aren't conclusive. But they are suspicious. And nothing can be done about it, now.
The FBI did not look at to what extent the Russian interference was successful. If that's even possible.