Do the polls have it all wrong?

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“The dam is about to break,” Pat Caddell, pollster to Jimmy Carter turned frequent Fox News commentator, declared earlier this week, projecting that recent polling trends in the presidential election which have been heading in Donald Trump’s direction were about to snowball into a Trump landslide.

Caddell is one of the most prominent critics of the public polling averages and the media polls that are fed into these averages which suggest that Hillary Clinton holds a lead in the race.

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