{"id":49976,"date":"2016-09-22T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49976"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:44:45","slug":"hillary-asks-why-arent-i-50-points-ahead-in-the-polls-trump-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49976","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Asks &#8220;Why Aren&#8217;t I 50 Points Ahead&#8221; In The Polls? Trump Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly shocked that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-09-19\/shes-so-full-st-lessons-hillary-pricey-ads-catchy-soundbites-dont-work\"> after spending 10s of millions of dollars, she remains only modestly ahead in the polls<\/a>, Hillary Clinton exclaimed during an teleconference with the Laborers&#8217; International Union of North America, saying, <strong><em>&#8220;Why aren\u2019t I 50 points ahead?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> Donald Trump was quick offer a three word reason&#8230; <strong><em>&#8220;because you&#8217;re terrible!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton has spent several times what Donald Trump has spent to air television ads in key states. That will likely continue; in a <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/campaign-trail\/trump-clinton-johnson-tv-radio-ad-spending-totals\/305883\/\" target=\"_blank\">new count by Advertising Age<\/a>, the Clinton campaign and its allied super PACs have booked $145.3 million in ad time between now and Election Day, to $4.4 million for Trump and his groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/15\/20160919_trumpads.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/15\/20160919_trumpads_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But , as we noted previously, what if it doesn&#8217;t really matter?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/15\/20160919_trumpads1.jpg\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/15\/20160919_trumpads1_0.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-ad-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>And so Hillary Clinton asks frustratedly&#8230; <em>\u201cHaving said all this, \u2018<strong>Why aren\u2019t I 50 points ahead?\u2019 you might ask<\/strong>?\u201d &#8230; Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer. I need your help to get Donald Trump\u2019s record out to everybody. Nobody should be fooled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/d9142b3e-8072-11e6-9578-558cc125c7ba\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And Donald Trump was quick to respond: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/trump-clinton-is-terrible-228511\">(as Politico reported)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cBecause she\u2019s terrible,\u201d<\/strong> he said bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I mean, she\u2019s had a terrible record. Everything she touches is bad.<\/strong> You look at what\u2019s going on with Libya and you look at the surge and you look at all of her decisions and you look at the Iran deal, which is one of the dumbest deals I\u2019ve ever seen, which she started, and she totally backs, by the way, I mean, in its completed form, she totally backs. You look at everything she touched, I mean, it\u2019s just a mess. <strong>And she\u2019s spending a lot of money and so far it\u2019s not had much of an impact because I guess I\u2019m winning in most of these states and we\u2019ll see what happens in the end, but she is [terrible].<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The surprised look on Hillary&#8217;s face says it all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/20\/20160922_clinton50.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/20\/20160922_clinton50.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-09-22\/hillary-asks-why-arent-i-50-points-ahead-polls-trump-responds\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-09-22\/hillary-asks-why-arent-i-50-points-ahead-polls-trump-responds<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}