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SickOfTheOnePct

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8. There is no evidence
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 11:29 PM
Nov 2016

There was a single exit poll that came out about a week before the election that claimed that 28% of Republican early voters were voting for Hillary. This was based on ~400 people that they polled via phone and the internet of the 3.6 million who had voted up to that point.

Then this blogger, something Palmer, decided that since 28% of Republicans in the 3.6 million early voters had voted for Hillary up to the week before the election, 28% Republicans in the remaining 3 million that early voted between the exit poll and election day must have also voted for Hillary.

The poll was an outlier, couldn't even provide a margin of error because of the way it was conducted, and then Palmer took iffy results based on 3.6 million voters and extrapolated them out to another 3 million voters.

And it's all moot anyway, because Florida has already certified their vote, so there can't be a recount at this point.

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