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How did everyone get it so wrong?
Politico ^ | 11/09/2016 | Kenneth P. Vogel and Alex Isenstadt

Posted on 11/09/2016 12:57:26 AM PST by plangent

Everybody was wrong. Again.

When Election Day dawned, almost all the pollsters, analytics nerds and political insiders in the country had Hillary Clinton waltzing into the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bubblelife; clueless; urbanhermits
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No, everyone did not get it wrong. Looks like 70% of the Country got it right. The Clueless pundit class got it wrong, the Liberal Bubble Class got it wrong and the Urban Hermits got it wrong. The rest of us got it right.

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1 posted on 11/09/2016 12:57:26 AM PST by plangent
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To: plangent

Push Polls. Also, failure to realize alot of us are on to their game.


2 posted on 11/09/2016 1:00:39 AM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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Bad journalism. There was one poll that was close, and has been close the last 4 elections, but someone they aren’t talking about it

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/ibdtipp-poll-nails-it-again/


3 posted on 11/09/2016 1:00:56 AM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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I learned 4 years ago to not to listen to anything two weeks prior to the election. ts the sane thing to do.


4 posted on 11/09/2016 1:01:06 AM PST by oyez (Hell is a gun free zone.)
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Team Deplorable is like the Spanish Inquisition, no one expects us.


5 posted on 11/09/2016 1:01:57 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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It’s simple - they assumed too much and they were stuck in their own circle of elite ideas. They have very little in common with most of us so how can they understand us?

If we are honest, many of us made our own assumptions and despite our greatest hopes most of us had doubts. This is a tremendous opportunity for our nation and I pray that people will give him a chance and they (the elite) do not simply revert back to the elitism that caused them to miss this so badly.

He will need our continued support because part of what he needs to clean up is the GOPe. It’s a new day!


6 posted on 11/09/2016 1:02:39 AM PST by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: plangent

I didn’t get it wrong. I nailed it.


7 posted on 11/09/2016 1:03:25 AM PST by Gargantua ("President Trump... nice ring to it..." ;^)
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Like Brexit .. The die was cast a long time ago!


8 posted on 11/09/2016 1:03:54 AM PST by VRWC For Truth ( FU Klintoons)
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Agree 100%. They willfully put themselves in an echo chamber. President Trump and the American people just gave them a wake up call.


9 posted on 11/09/2016 1:03:56 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Polls were generally spiked upwards for Hillary.

In almost every poll that favored Hillary, more people identified as
DEMS than REPUBS to the tune of 5%-9%.


10 posted on 11/09/2016 1:04:05 AM PST by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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Donald J Trump will be 70 years 7 months and 7 days old when he is sworn in as the President of the United States in the Hebrew year 5777. 777 is the trinity of the number of completion. This was written in the Word of God..


11 posted on 11/09/2016 1:04:32 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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Oversampling. Democrats wanted good news in the polls. Then complacency snuck up on them.
12 posted on 11/09/2016 1:04:52 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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Everyone didn’t!

While the margins were smaller than I expected, likely due to the complete abandonment of the media of even a token facade of objectivity... There were those who called this election, particularly the collapse of the rust belt, accurately.

Hell even Michael Moore saw and warned you, and you just ignored the obvious.


13 posted on 11/09/2016 1:04:54 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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They didn’t actually get it wrong, they were bullshitting everyone.


14 posted on 11/09/2016 1:05:15 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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The cool thing about gifs is, they don’t have a decay factor. They just go on and on ...


15 posted on 11/09/2016 1:06:21 AM PST by cynwoody
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Speaking of which, it is going to be interesting to see what the political makeup was of the voters in this election,


16 posted on 11/09/2016 1:06:36 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: plangent

Nah..one pretty much nailed it. IBD or something like that.

Had Trump up about 1 percent last day of polling.


17 posted on 11/09/2016 1:07:33 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Because they were liars in the tank pretending and presuming that they were the winners of the foot race and looked down and saw that their ribbons were just “participants” ribbons given to them to make them feel good. It’s one of those Alinsky rules for radicals type things - its not the power you have; it’s the power you make them think you have things. Well sorry guys that only works if they fall for your bluff. Face it chumps this time Trump called your bluff so go ahead so; start packing your bags and evacuate your little Satanic bloodlust orgies with you and your Illuminati hand signals and cheap jewelry somewhere else like say Qatar. Might not wanna let ‘em know you’re LGBT though unless you can jump pretty high....


18 posted on 11/09/2016 1:08:11 AM PST by jsanders2001
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19 posted on 11/09/2016 1:08:32 AM PST by Bobalu (He who elects a criminal is not a victim, but an accomplice.)
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