# Is Trump very very strong favourite in presidential race?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [February 26, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-very-very-strong-favourite-in-presidential-race/747205 "2016-02-26T15:27:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-very-very-strong-favourite-in-presidential-race/747205/17 "2016-02-27T18:35:31Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Note that, based on a Google News search on his name, this professor’s prediction was widely reported by a variety of news sources. [Here](http://www.sbstatesman.com/2016/02/23/political-science-professor-forecasts-trump-as-general-election-winner/) is the story from the student newspaper at Stony Brook, which is the source of most stories about this, including the one on infowars.

And like I said in the thread about this professor:

> [@NY professor predicts Trump for President](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-professor-predicts-trump-for-president/747262/2):
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> Its deja vu all over again…
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> [Univ. of Colorado predicts Romney win by a landslide!! - Politics & Elections - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=669844)
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> > [@](#):
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> > Univ. of Colorado study predicts Romney wins by a landslide!!!
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> > Forcasting model developed by to CU Boulder professors has accurately predicted the winner of every POTUS election back to 1980.
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> ["Well they were wrong then weren’t they!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxxSIX3fmmo)

Point is that there is indeed a war of **misinformation** going on when you see iffy talking points like this one come up as news.

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