Then she goes on to say and talk about how she's studied poll after poll after poll, and she has found that hundreds of polls, aggregated nearly 100 different pollsters finds the average Democrat makeup of any poll is 34.8% and 28% Republican. Roughly six-point advantage. Very similar to CBS. Her point is that, look, I've studied a hundred pills pols, and they all have the same six- to seven-point Democrat advantage because there are six to seven more Democrats identified than there are Republicans. Interesting when you go liberal conservative, it's not even close. Almost twice as many people identify as conservatives as liberals, but they don't poll that way. They poll party identification.
Now, there are exceptions to this. We've found polls that sample Democrat majority of 20%. They're bad polls. A lot of polls have gotten it wrong, starting in, well, 2010, 2014. A lot of the Brexit polls were so bad, it's not even funny. But some of the polls have been right. So, anyway, Miss Ekin's points here is, you Trumpists, do not lie to yourselves like the Romney people did. The Romney people went into the 2012 election thinking the polls were wrong by five or six points, thought Romney was gonna win. It turns out the polls were right on the money. Don't lie to yourselves, is her point.
Okay, that takes me back to the original story here. New York Times: "Donald Trump Slips Further Behind Hillary Clinton in New Poll." However, let me read to you a paragraph in this story. This poll, by the way, shows Clinton with a... Well, let's review the data before I get to that paragraph. "A Washington Post-ABC News survey had Mrs. Clinton with a double-digit lead: 51% to 39%. A Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll had Mrs. Clinton with a smaller advantage of five percentage points.
"Both polls, released on Sunday, showed Mr. Trump in worse shape than he had been a month ago, as voters in the latest polls expressed doubts about his preparedness and qualifications to lead the nation." Isn't that increasingly curious, given that's exactly what Hillary Clinton is saying? Well, here's the paragraph: "Despite his woes, not all the results of the new polls were heartening for Mrs. Clinton.
"The Journal-NBC survey found that her lead essentially disappears when candidates from the Green Party and Libertarian Party are included. She essentially tied Mr. Trump, with 39% to his 38%. Together, third-party candidates grabbed 16% of the support." Well, isn't that kind of relevant? Because the libertarian candidate is not going away, right? Gary Johnson, he's gonna be there. So doesn't this paragraph kind of undo the headline, "Donald Trump Slips Further Behind Hillary Clinton in New Polls"? If it's just Trump and Hillary, yeah