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2016 Postmortem

tgards79

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13. Yes I do...and did at the time...

Reply to karynnj (Reply #12)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 02:42 PM

Nov 2015

...but apparently a small subset of readers did not. "Savvy" perhaps applies selectively!

The readership was a lot lower in 2012! You are right on that, too....

Still, I found it surprising that no one thought Bernie could get the nomination, and that Rubio got half the nods. That makes him, by this incredibly unscientific poll, as strong as Jeb was last year and Christie in 2012.

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Reader Poll for 2016...Does This Surprise You? [View all] tgards79 Nov 2015 OP

She wins with 100% of the vote? Give me a break. Fearless Nov 2015 #1

HMMM?? Old Codger Nov 2015 #3

Because the readers are an incredibly representative group of very very special people karynnj Nov 2015 #7

their very very savvy voters gave 5 % to Granholm karynnj Nov 2015 #2

OK Old Codger Nov 2015 #4

Not one of them thought he was going to win the nomination... tgards79 Nov 2015 #5

And who got points who is not in the race? tgards79 Nov 2015 #6

OK Old Codger Nov 2015 #8

Some readers thought they would win when asked three years ago, in 2012 tgards79 Nov 2015 #9

Granholm is Canadian born, so much for those saavy people Mass Nov 2015 #11

True, but Jennifer Granholm, born to Canadian parents in Canada, can not even run karynnj Nov 2015 #12

Yes I do...and did at the time... tgards79 Nov 2015 #13

I like people who believe in their candidate Mass Nov 2015 #10

Yes, but the more interesting side is the GOP side... tgards79 Nov 2015 #14

Newsmedia have repeated that again and again. Polls reflect that Mass Nov 2015 #15