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The same polls that predicted Hillary's win? I'm not buying it.

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > The same polls that predicted Hillary's win Nope; one because the Gallup daily Presidential approval tracking poll is not an election poll; two because polls don't predict anything, models that use polling data as an input do. > I'm not buying it. Facts remain facts regardless of whether they are convenient to your preferred team.
• brewdad 10y ago
  Hilary did win. The popular vote. Which is really what most of the polls were tracking. 80,000 votes out of 130,000,000+ swung the EC. Aside from holding an actual election, no poll can get the margin of error down to that level. The polls were not wrong. They were polls.
  • LordKano 10y ago
    History can't be retconned this quickly. The polls were done state by state and showed Hillary with a substantial electoral college advantage over Trump. These poll results weren't about reporting on the feelings of the electorate, they were about trying to influence them.