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Opinion: Just Like 2016 Polls Claim Trump Can’t Win

Is it wishful thinking, are the predictions accurate, I wish I knew.

In full disclosure I am a registered Democrat. I have not voted for a Republican for President since George Herbert Walker Bush, and that was because he actually guest taught a Poli Sci course I took at GWU in 1971 with Professor Purcell. Bush was a nice guy.
I wanted to major in Journalism but ended up a political science major.

What bothers me as someone who understands the importance of Journalism is how openly too many journalist despise President Trump, perhaps with good reasons but still unprofessionally.
I once did polling for a Presidential Election and know that the process can be flawed if it attempts to be done without bias. One must ask are today’s polls that are being financed by major corporations whose financial interests are effected by the election results overly bias? This scares me. The big corporations are so huge they can take on the federal government and win. It is no accident that Jeff Bezos made a point to personally own the Washington Post. Not many critical editorials of him come from the Post ever. Why?

When Bezos is an open enemy of Trump how will the polls he finances through the Post be skewed? There are no penalties for polls being wrong just excuses.

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I believe in a strong independent press but not corporate propaganda entities styled to enhance the CEO’s agenda.
Eventually hopefully this year a Presidential election result will happen. No matter who wins the other side will most likely declare the result fraudulent. Sadly I feel corporate interests have “Hijacked,” the National American election process not as an united front but as greedy self interests men who love big bonuses, nice new private jets and lots of unchecked individual power. About the issues? Look at the inequality of pay in corporations. They are the masters today not some President.

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