# Trump may be more popular than you think **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-be-more-popular-than-you-think/778961 "2017-02-04T03:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-be-more-popular-than-you-think/778961/41 "2017-02-06T00:29:03Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > I hate Trump as much as anyone but it#s about time people got real. > > When people say ‘I underestimated Trump’ I’m not sure they understand they have been misinformed and misled by city-centric, liberal media for years: > > So many Trump opponents are their own, judgemental, superior worst enemies: Trump won in the key states by really small margins, and lost the overall popular vote by millions. For all practical purposes, it was a dead heat. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-be-more-popular-than-you-think/778961/42 "2017-02-06T00:55:48Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Trump talks trash and his supporters keep quiet. > [@Ludovic](#): > > I see that you have posted to this message board, and that must be a nice trick to have posted without having been online at all since the elections. Well done! > [@Quartz](#): > > Well, I’m not a Trump supporter. (Hint: I’m not American.) That you label me such and treat me accordingly is another case in point. There’s nothing in my post that would label you a trump supporter. My post, for the sarcasm impaired, meant that you needed to be living on Mars, under a rock, with your fingers in your ears to not have seen Trump sore winners still lashing out nearly everywhere you can look online, including this “liberal bubble” of a website. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-be-more-popular-than-you-think/778961/43 "2017-02-06T01:46:01Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Some individual states were off a bit but for the most part the polls were accurate (certainly on a national level). Out of 125 million votes cast, 80,000 in three states swung the election. He only lost the popular vote because there were [three million illegal votes](http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2216996-evidence-suggests-voter-fraud-in-the-2016-elections-was-likely/) (apparently _all_ for Ms. Clinton), and he plans on spending more money investigating that than they spent on Benghazi and the e-mail server probes. He is going to get to the bottom of why the press is so wrongly reporting is yuge bigly popularity with Americans. > [@Lemur866](#): > > … they chewed off their own leg to escape the trap… If only they had thought to chew off the leg that was actually caught in the trap. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-be-more-popular-than-you-think/778961.md?page=2)