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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by threeseed on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:41AM (#12716974)
It is the height of stupidity to believe in any one poll. Especially that one which has had major issues with sampling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/upshot/how-one-19-year-old...

There are plenty of aggregation sites which are far better at smoothing out any issues:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-...

They all show Trump losing in a landslide with Clinton getting around 330 EC votes.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by blhack on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:42AM (#12716980)
USC's response to this: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-daybreak-poll-ques...
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by threeseed on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:47AM (#12717002)
This is exactly why you should never blindly trust a single poll.

We don't know who is right/wrong until after the election so it is better to assume that a range of different polls taken at different times with different methodologies is likely to be more accurate.

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