ROB wrote:Rubbish. Yep, the pollsters got it very wrong. Once.
But 538 (for example) literally called every polling station correctly for the last 2 elections. (Not forgetting that they also still gave Trump a 1 in 3 chance on the morning of the election so still very much a chance).
So obviously something about what they do is also right.
Now what they do, is go back to the drawing board, figure out why their data was wrong and correct their methodology.
This is how intelligent, rational people improve things.
Sure, it doesn't always work. But it works most of the time and will normally produce increasingly accurate outcomes.
You don't just throw the whole fucking lot out.
And let's not forget. Literally a 1% change in voting and we would have been talking about President Hillary.
And yeah, Trump's win would have been far more likely if Sanders had taken Sandtards' votes to a third party.
If any election has given us reason to "throw the whole fucking lot out" it's this one. It's the DNC's fault, pure and simple. They did this with Dean in 2004 and again with Sanders. To this day people forget the Anyone But Dean commitee of the DNC but remember the "scream" (a candidate enthused by his candidacy..how shocking!). They continue to dismiss the dissidents, even though they are a large percentage of the primary voters, with terms like "Sandtards" and these are people who tried to participate in the system that was set up for being "fair". Time for "Sandtards" to dismiss everyone else because this system you are clinging to and want to return is not working at all and a large number of voters in the West hate it.
Imagine a political movement that puts everything back where it was supposed to be? That's not gonna cut it now. No lefty is going to be enthused about bringing back an establishment that almost elected a Neo-Liberal /Neo-Conservative open borders and free capital and labor movement when the economy is puking on itself but we are being told the world is just fine.
Obama should have purged the old guard that tried to dismiss him as a viable candidate in 2008