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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forummonths ago, Steve Bannon knew precisely which states Donald Trump would flip
http://www.palmerreport.com/news/steve-bannon-months-donald-trump-flip/168/
For some bizarre reason, the otherwise respected online publication The Hollywood Reporter decided to publish a somewhat friendly interview this week with Steve Bannon, who just happens to be an acknowledged white supremacist and alleged wife beater among other things. The interviewer in question, Michael Wolff, is just now reporting that when he visited Bannon this past summer, Bannon told him that Donald Trump was going to win the states of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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months ago, Steve Bannon knew precisely which states Donald Trump would flip (Original Post)
anamandujano
Dec 2016
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mythology
(9,527 posts)1. Would you expect him to say "we're going to lose all the swing states
and win by flipping New York and California"? This not only isn't suspicious, it's expected.
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)2. Their story is microtargeting...
Using the data analytics of brietbart and fake news web traffic, plus commercial data inputs from consumer behavior and voting behavior, they mapped out voters that hadn't voted and were likely to vote for trump to "shake things up."
I need to see some details or better interviews before I buy it, but it at least seems plausible and explains why pollsters missed it.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)3. some nonpartisan observers predicted it around the same time
simply because it is part of a political realignment.