FAILURE By Design or Incompetence?

[easyt65]

Pollsters suffer huge embarrassment

"Pollsters and election modelers suffered an industry-shattering embarrassment at the hands of Donald Trump."

I am still one who believes the massive 'failure to accurately predict' the polls was by design, a 'gambit'.

The 'all-in' media, seeing the low Primary turnouts and high GOP turnouts during the Primaries, sought to counter that trend by falsely reporting huge leads / numbers for Hillary in the polls, in hopes of discouraging GOP turnout in the general election...and it did not work. The alternative theory / theories is / are that the media just SUCKS at their jobs and / or they underestimated the American people / voters.

Pollsters suffer huge embarrassment

 

[NYcarbineer]

The national poll average is going to end up as close the actual result, or closer, than it was in 2012.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I said all along the polls were BS, you can't justify Clinton leading while attracting small crowds while Trump was drawing the crowds he was. Trump had the enthusiasm

 

[easyt65]

The national poll average is going to end up as close the actual result, or closer, than it was in 2012.

When and how? The major media sources ,as I pointed out, ate calling this an epic, historic, utter 'polls' failure'. (That said, I have never put much stock into polls anyway, so I am happy to see this, but I also don't buy into this massively bleak analysis of the polling as stated in this election...)