{"id":774,"date":"2016-05-30T23:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2016-05-30T23:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T05:15:44","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-care-about-the-trump-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Why you shouldn&#8217;t care about the Trump Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\">The Bernie Sanders campaign\u00a0want the Superdelegates to switch their votes to Hillary Clinton because they are concerned about Donald Trump and his recent poll numbers rising since he became the presumptive nominee. Is the sky falling? Is disenfranchising the majority of voters in the Democratic primary the only way to avoid getting\u00a0Trump in the oval office?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\">Not necessarily.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6qq7r-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Did you know that when John McCain clinched the GOP nomination that he had a bump in the polls. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"e6jbh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e6jbh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e6jbh-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"6cotm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6cotm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6cotm-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Did you know that when Mitt Romney clinched the GOP nomination that he had a bump in the polls. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"dppve-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dppve-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dppve-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"ajstt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ajstt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ajstt-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">And now Trump gets a bump in the polls after he clinched the GOP nomination. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"5qrf9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5qrf9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5qrf9-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"5stib-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5stib-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5stib-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">How am I to interpret that? <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"ak5e0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ak5e0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ak5e0-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"336pn\" data-offset-key=\"a9alg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a9alg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a9alg-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Well, considering that President Obama also had a bump in the polls when he won the nomination I would interpret the data as saying winning your party nomination gives you a bump in the polls.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a9alg-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a9alg-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a9alg-0-0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bernie Sanders campaign\u00a0want the Superdelegates to switch their votes to Hillary Clinton because they are concerned about Donald Trump and his recent poll numbers rising since he became the presumptive nominee. Is the sky falling? 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