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Originally posted by lilostolemycoke
I think they knew they had an excellent shot of winning them. It just worked out too perfectly for them and was way too coincidental.
Like, obviously the Trump campaign knew they were done, up until the Comey **** happened and they saw that as an opportunity to come back. I don't even think they saw that as a sure way to win. If anything, I see the Comey-gate as a key to a locked room and in the room was locked chest with Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina inside. If that makes sense.
My question is, how did they get in the locked chest?
I want to know how they knew to go after states that were in the bag for blue. Was their polling data really that accurate? Over Hillary's? Over national polls? I don't think so. I feel like they were possibly tipped off by someone in the Clinton camp with enough influence to get them to prod in these states. (Or maybe they came across some hacked information, but I'm not gonna get too tin-foil hat) Literally the only one of those states that could have flipped realistically looking at polls was North Carolina.
The confidence they had while entering the last week was... odd. Everybody brushed off these random campaign stops as Trump trying to get some last minute votes so his popular vote wouldn't be that bad. But maybe these campaign stops were to prep the country for a huge upset? Because there's no way a couple rallies won him these states. That's ludicrous. Assuming all the polling was correct, of course.
Hell, I remember *every* major pollster going after 538 for how irresponsible he was being for saying Clinton only had a 70% chance of winning. Like what happened?
I also want to add that the media played up these secret Trump voters way too hard. If Hillary won, CNN could pull just as many "secret Hillary voting Republicans" in about 10 seconds.  |
I think it was a last minute throw of the dice, like "we've got nothing to lose, so lets play to win". Kellyanne was bluffing when she said the internal polls were different to what everyone else was seeing, because Sarah Huckabee said that was not true. After the last campaign rally in Michigan Bill and Hillary both noticed that it didn't feel like what a "winning" rally should feel like, while Donald said in his last campaign stop in Michigan I think that "it doesn't feel like we're coming second". As has been said, people on the ground were desperate for more backup but Clinton's campaign managers said no. No one could of predicted the huge rural turnout that would come for Donald, but I think his campaign felt they had a chance of an upset.
