Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton still leads in the race for the White House — not that he's willing to bet money on her winning, veteran pollster John Zogby tells Newsmax TV.
"There's no science to this at all except reading the polls. I'm putting it at a 55-45 Hillary right now," Zogby, a senior partner at Zogby Strategies, said Wednesday to Bill Tucker on "America Talks Live."
"I was telling people I'll bet you $50 Hillary Clinton wins but I won't bet you $250. I'm taking that $50 off the table right now.
"Who knows many new cycles between now and next Tuesday but where we stand now there's a very good chance that we have another election like 2000 or 2004 where it's questionable or someone pulls out the 270 plus electoral votes but it's not what you would call a decisive victory."
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In those cases, the nation should be prepared for "one of those Armageddon elections where one side says to the other I can't accept you," Zogby said.
He also doubts either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would be gracious enough to concede in a close race.
"Even if they were each by temperament willing to, their bases would not accept it at all. It would be driven by those bases. You know Hillary Clinton is obvious. Donald Trump, I think, has created something that he can't control himself even if by temperament he wanted to," Zogby said.
Zogby, who also directs the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship, is the author of Zogby is the author of "We Are Many, We Are One: Neo-Tribes and Tribal Analytics in 21st Century America," published by Paramount Market Publishing.
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