Pollsters who missed Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory are headed back to the drawing board.Mistakes were made.
Most polls predicted a Hillary Clinton victory on Election Day, with some positively bullish on the likelihood of a Clinton White House.
The final poll from the Reuters State of the Nation project put the odds at 90 percent that Clinton, the Democratic nominee, would win; The Huffington Post’s model predicted a 98.2 percent chance of Clinton winning; and The New York Times’s Upshot put them at 85 percent.
Both thought that Clinton would win the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Friday, November 25, 2016
Pollsters go back to drawing board
The Hill reports: