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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:05 PM Sep 2016

Take the quizz: WHO's predicting a Trump victory?

I'm not familiar enough with right-wing sleazebags to do well, only 3 out of 8. My third win was deciding an answer wasn't obscene enough for Bill Mahr and going with my other best guess.

Donald Trump has plenty of big-name supporters — people such as Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich and Matt Drudge. But which of the Republican presidential nominee’s boosters have actually predicted that he will win the White House? The list is shorter than you might think.

There is a difference between hoping for a win and expecting one, of course; even with a recent polling surge, Trump remains a 2-to-1 underdog in the general election, according to FiveThirtyEight. Some prominent Trump backers have stopped short of saying they think the business mogul will be victorious Nov. 8, perhaps because they are thinking the same thing that National Review editor Rich Lowry told me in August.

“Predicting victory and being wrong will be more discrediting than simply saying he was better than the alternative,” said Lowry, whose conservative magazine opposes Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/14/quiz-who-is-actually-predicting-a-donald-trump-victory/
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