How Did Polls & Experts Get the 2016 Election So Wrong?

[pgs]

I guess it proves that the so called experts really aren't , are they ?

 

[EagleSmack]

Inorite? I'm sure what won it for Trump was the decent, modest, quiet-spoken kindness of the candidate and his people.

Bad case of the sniffles?

 

[Ludlow]

More political commentary please.

 

[EagleSmack]

It's the first election I can recall - in the 'free' world, anyhow - where people actually seemed afraid of retribution if they revealed they were voting for the wrong candidate. That's more common a while after the votes are counted and the new guy proves to be a complete boob - as in trying to find anyone in Ontario who'll admit voting for Wynne.

The libs down here are a nasty bunch.

 

[Remington1]

No poll could have predicted this one, the silent votes are normally not as huge. It's kind of sad that people voting for a President would be too embarrass to admit their endorsement!! The reasons behind this embarrassment is/was real and well warranted, this man is so far from what many in the the world vision as a US President, it's insane. He's actually far from being a president for any country.

 

[EagleSmack]

Actually he's a couple of months from being President of the United States.

And we simply don't like screaming libs in our face or keying our cars.

Thanks for playing.

I believe that the world depends on statistics too much. Data and tech.

One panelist on CNN alluded to this last night, but when you're in a television studio, it's best to pick your words. He said, paraphrased, we got all this high tech, but we're talking about humans".

The pollsters have become too concerned with data accumulation and have forgotten to watch the faces and judge the moods of people on the street.

And taking polls at Grand Central Station, the SAN Francisco fish pier, and college campuses simply isn't going to get you accurate results. But I know... nobody wants to head out to the rural areas to poll them deplorables.

 

[Murphy]

The polling companies got kneed in the nuts. Time to figure out a new app...:lol:

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

One of the reasons is that's why they vote. It's all guesswork until then. Usually they are pretty close. It's not like she got blown out. She won the overall vote count.

The polls were much more specific. State by state. I remember Flossy pointing to the huge number of electoral votes she was assured because of the polls.

 

[Murphy]

And as we now know, they were very wrong.

 

[gopher]

The libs down here are a nasty bunch.

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But pollsters are often wrong such as when they initially had Jeb Bush way ahead of every other Republican. At the end, he was dead last among them.

 

[personal touch]

Let the good times roll
Donald Trump dealing with pro lifers is something to watch for,
Abolishing Obama care is another interesting move,
The wall?
Freaks on freaks

 

[Ludlow]

Who cares? The election is over. Let's move on.

 

[Highball]

Look at the Pollsters past performances and that will speak volumes. Those who hire them give them a list of questions to ask and where to go to get them answered. How can one get the feelings of the average working person when Polling in front of a Court House? I'll bet the Pollsters offer no refunds either.

 

[personal touch]

Say, you're not related to megahurtz by any chance?

or to paraphrase ES: huh?

Supposedly I am Megahertz s mother,if this helps you,
Eh?I like that