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Patrick says

Once again, there's evidence suggesting traditional polls

You mean untraditional polls, or not polls at all.

What you refered to as polls were not really polsters conducting statistically accurate sampling to try to predict the outcome.

New definition:

Polls - Politically outlandish liberal/leftist schemers

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

TRUMPLIGULA! UBER! ALLES!

hurr durr.

you are old and tired.

PCGyver says

Then again maybe he isn't.

He is. Get out of Los Angeles and SF and you'd see.

I imagine the pro-monarchy press didn't report positively on the pesky rebels.

Fucking White Male says

He is. Get out of Los Angeles and SF and you'd see.

Don't forget the Northwest.

I saw an article last week by Nate Silver, "How the polls and pundits got it wrong."

Is Huffington Post still saying Hillary has a 98% chance of winning?

if polls were right, than Trump wouldn't have won. So why would I trust their accuracy now on CNN when they were clearly wrong?

zzyzzx says

Wow, everything you blame Obama for was Bush's fault. The $800 billion tab coming due, the massive job loses, the stock market crash because fundamentals were all fucked up due to deregulation, the disastrous Iraq War. You'd think that you'd be able to find something in Obama's terrible 8 year reign that was actually terrible -- hint, there were plenty of bad things to choose from -- but your making a pretty good case that Obama was a great president.

On jobs...

Kennedy (D) unemployment goes down
Johnson (D) down
Nixon (R) up
Ford (R) up
Carter (D) down
Reagan (R) up
Bush Sr. (R) up
Clinton (D) down
Bush Jr. (R) up
Obama (D) down

Yes, under Obama unemployment went down. The initial uptick was the massive layoff caused by Bush inflating a real estate bubble and causing a major depression.

Obama inherited a miss. Trump has inherited damn good times.

I don't particularly like Obama. He was terrible on human rights, civil rights, spying, the war on drugs, and a whole lot of other issues. But he's an economic genius compare to any Republican president since Eisenhower, who was a socialist liberal and would be a Democrat today without any doubt.

On the debt

Notice the huge increases by Republicans?

And yes, this is a problem caused by Republicans.

Now let's look during Obama's terms.

Notice the increase is minuscule. In fact, it's a decrease after adjusting for inflation. See the numbers below.

Hell, if the national debt pisses you off -- and it should -- you should be pissed off at Republicans, especially Ronald Reagan.

On the Iraq War and the "disastrous pullout"...

I guess you prefer dead U.S. soldiers. The fact is that the number of our boys and girls coming back in coffins plummeted as the result of Obama being elected. Republicans use our soldiers as cannon fodder.

So there you have it. Every single thing conservatives bitch about Obama is really a problem caused by Republicans.

Stop making up bullshit about Obama. I don't like having to defend the asshole, but historical truth is too important to allow revisionists to destroy. I'd rather spend my time criticizing all the bad things Obama actually did like
- prosecute whistle blowers
- implement an Unconstitutional domestic spying program
- killing innocent civilians including children and pregnant women with drone strikes
- targeting U.S. citizens, including minors, for political assassination
- proliferating the war on drugs, the militarization of police, and the abuse of human rights by cops

Don't make me defend Obama again against your stupid lies.