Sam Smith - After watching James Comey's television interview, I went back and checked the polls taken before and after his controversial statement on Hillary Clinton's emails. The national ones did not quite fit the pattern Clinton's supporters claim, and, if in fact, Comey seriously hurt Clinton's chances, it should have showed up in national surveys stronger than they did.
My sense is that this is another case of the Clintons successfully manipulating the media, Here, just for the record, are some of the national results for Clinton before and after Comey's statement:
- Princeton: down 4 points after the release but down only 2 by the election
- MCClatchy-Marist: down 2 points from September to election
- Franklin Pierce/Boston Herald: Up 2 points
- CBS: Down 2 points
- Five Thirty Eight: Down 3 points
- Monmouth: Up 2 points
- Bloomberg: Down 4 points
- Washington: No change
- Investors Daily: Down 2 points
In short, the national polls were a hodge podge mostly within a national poll average error rater of 2%. And there is no scientific way of blaming even this shift of votes on Comey's statement.
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Mate Silver disagrees
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/
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