Irvinecommuter said:
morekaos said:
The point I labor to make is that the media continue to trust polling and opinion that has been proven wrong again and again. Like the 2016 election, I kept telling people this guy does not poll normally, you cannot depend on the numbers to be accurate any more.
What it the definition of insanity again?
Whatever it is that you are doing because you keep making the same faulty comments about polls.
The polls were actually quite on point with the 2016 election (Clinton +3.2 in polling and +2.1 in reality) and has been pretty darn accurate with respect to the elections ever since. For a numbers guy, you willingness to ignore basic principals of statistics and polling is quite interesting.
You seem to remember it differently. Don't make me drag up all the media that had polls showing Clinton winning by a landslide in both the popular and electoral college. In fact they thought she had the map locked. ALL the polls showed a win, if anything the popular vote was where they were nervous but "polls" showed a clear path to victory in the electoral college...not so much.
HILLARY CLINTON ON TRACK FOR ELECTORAL COLLEGE LANDSLIDE: POLL
After a brutal week for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton maintained a substantial projected advantage in the race to win the Electoral College and claim the U.S. presidency, according to the latest results from the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project released on Saturday.
If the election were held this week, the project estimates that
Clinton's odds of securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency at more than 95 percent, and by a margin of 118 Electoral College votes. It is the second week in a row that the project has estimated her odds so high.
The results mirror other Electoral College projections, some of which estimate Clinton's
chance of winning at around 90 percent.
http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-track-electoral-college-landslide-510362