By Jonathan Easley
Pollsters and election modelers suffered an industry-shattering embarrassment at the hands ofDonald Trump on Tuesday night.
Trump had long said the polls were biased against him. His claims – dismissed and mocked by the experts – turned out to be true.
“It’s going to put the polling industry out of business,” said CNN anchor Jake Tapper. “It’s going to put the voter projection industry out of business.”
Going into Election Day, a strong majority of pollsters and election modelers forecast thatHillary Clinton would coast to victory, with many predicting she would sweep the battlegrounds and win north of 300 electoral votes.
The final University of Virginia Center for Politics model had Clinton winning 322 electoral votes to 216 for Trump, with Clinton winning Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – all states that she lost.
Liberals lashed out at data guru Nate Silver for giving Trump a 35 percent chance of victory heading into Election Day, claiming he was putting his thumb on the scale for Trump by making the race appear closer than it was.
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/305133-pollsters-suffer-huge-embarrassment
I’d get fired at work if I missed like they did….
They were all in the tank for Clinton.
Biased pollsters trying to influence the election…
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They did their job… it just didn’t work
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This election has been epic in so many levels.You have to admire Trump for winning against all media,media jerks, media jerks spokespersons, his own party jerks and did so in a landslide fashion. Wow, just wow. And a big WOW for the sore losers. Today NYC was like a ghost town, everybody looked depressed and was at their worst behavior. Sore losers.
2:14 “landslide fashion?? He lost the popular vote!!
She was a terrible candidate. In the end she would have lost to whomever the republicans threw at her. Too bad it had to be Trump.
Wild guess here, but I think Julian Assange is no longer the darling of the Left.
4:04 – yes. It was a Trump Landslide.
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Electoral Vote:
Trump 306
Clinton: 232
TRUMP got 32% more Electoral Votes than Clinton
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States:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
TRUMP got 50% more States than Clinton
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Popular Vote:
Trump: 59,704,886
Clinton: 59,938,290
CLINTON got 0.0039% more Popular Votes than Trump
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*Note: popular votes taken from politico.com other sites have SLIGHTLY different but SIMILAR vote counts
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