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Hillary Clinton won the third presidential debate last night hands down. We know this thanks to post-debate scientific polls. Donald Trump can’t crow about those, because of the whole losing thing. So he is back to throwing meaningless online polls at his followers. His Twitter feed is garish enough to resemble Las Vegas. All it lacks is the neon.
He first claimed victory on the basis of a Washington Times online poll. Washington Times is a conservative news site. Liberals and progressives are unlikely to even be visiting it, let alone voting there. It’s a given Trump will win such polls:
The Washington Times Presidential Debate Poll:
TRUMP 77% (18,290)
CLINTON 17% (4,100)#DrainTheSwamp #Debate pic.twitter.com/wsgsf5nv6HTo get more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter The Daily.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2016
This tweet went out in the wee hours of the morning:
Just landed in Ohio. Thank you America- I am honored to win the final debate for our MOVEMENT. It is time to #DrainTheSwamp & #MAGA! pic.twitter.com/NjCm5W9o0x
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2016
So what might explain the one poll you might notice is missing? Breitbart. Do you know why it’s missing? Why Trump isn’t crowing about Breitbart’s poll? Because the Breitbart poll says Hillary Clinton won the debate:
That was at 11 pm last night. As of the time of this writing, 100,000 votes later, Hillary is still ahead in the Breitbart online poll 50 percent to 44 percent with 190,000 votes in.
As CNN’s Brian Stelter quipped,
Rigged. https://t.co/It0APmlWDa
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 20, 2016
Not only did Donald Trump go “full jerk mode” last night, as Kurt Eichenwald called it, but he was caught out in lie after lie last night, denying things we have tape of him saying. It is no wonder he would lie about winning a debate he clearly lost. Trump can’t admit he lost anything. But it must sting a little when the online poll at his favorite news site says he lost.
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
