title: reminders to ignore the trump is doomed polls
text: independents tilt decisively to trump october   daniel greenfield 
  independents are the largest political group in the country larger than either democrats or republicans and theyre tilting toward trump and the gop 
  adding in ideology the tracking poll shows clinton going from  percent support among liberal democrats early in the tracking poll to  percent now while trumps gone from  percent among conservative republicans to  percent now 
  independents  sometimes swing voters in past elections albeit inconsistently  also merit attention theyve gone from a scant  points in clintons favor in the first four nights of tracking  percent to a substantial trump lead now  percent clintontrump 
  a key element here is the partisan preferences of independents who emerge as likely to vote they were  points more likely to lean toward the republican party rather than the democratic party at the start of tracking but are  points more apt to do so now 
  hillary clinton tried to win over independents by positioning her brand as a moderate centrist who can work with republicans and can get things done while portraying trump as dangerous and irresponsible it certainly worked to a degree 
  trumps pitch was that hes not a conventional republican and he can overturn a rigged system the drain the swamp speech was a key element the latter is more likely to ultimately appeal to people who identify as none of the above because theyre disgusted with both parties