How How did the pollsters get it so wrong? They underestimated white turnout in rural areas and overestimated black and millennial voters
- Until the eleventh hour predictions were that Hillary had an 85 percent chance of winning the election
- Even Tuesday’s exit poll had Clinton winning almost everywhere at 5 p.m.
- Trump supporters claim the speculators got it wrong because of partisan bias after the Republican won a stunning victory
- ‘People have been told that they have to be embarrassed to support Donald Trump, even in a telephone poll,’ says consultant Frank McCarthy
- Of all major national surveys, the LA Times and IBD/TIPP tracking polls were the only two to call a Trump victory
- Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight – which correctly called the last two elections – forecast a 66 per cent likelihood that Clinton will take the White House
- CBS, ABC/Washington Post, Bloomberg, Rasmussen, Monmouth University and NBC News/Survey Monkey all got it wrong
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Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebookntil the eleventh hour predictions were that Hillary had an 85 percent chance of winning the election. Even Tuesday’s exit poll had Clinton winning almost everywhere at 5 p.m.
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