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To: Sam who wrote (317481)	11/10/2016 12:29:12 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541025

I actually don't base my opinions on the polls...not to any great degree anyway...my main argument has been two things: (1) in a battle between heart and mind, the heart wins 90% of the times. HRC lacked emotional appeal. Sanders was able to raise the pulse of the people. (2) It has been clear since Obama's first term that the people want change. A vote for either Sanders or Trump was a vote for change. So the election would then have run on the merits of the two candidates. But with HRC, it became about change vs status quo. But if we are going to look at polls, Sanders margins against Trump were much larger. And let's not forget that Sanders did not have any of Hillary's weaknesses: he is considered honest, there is a very clean history behind him, there are no Sanders haters the way there are Clinton haters. The list goes on.