I'm glad folks can see here why the electoral college is so important. States vote for the people. This is very critical to the nation as it prevents one or two more populous states from overwhelming the rest of the states.
Because they were mostly fake polls.
I'm not sure the polls were all that fake. Think about the similarities of the Brexit vote and completely inaccurate polling and this election and the same, worthless polling.
Brexit was believed to be impossible, until it happened, of course. Up to that point, the polling showed Remain to be a cinch. But those in favor of Brext were verbally abused, insulted, made to feel like their choice was treasonous. No one wanted to be Brexit fans in public. Many were in private.
Trump supporters were made out to be racist, sexist, xenophobic and deplorable by the media. The media did it's best to make people feel that supporting Trump meant they were defective in some manner. But people know what is right, deep down. At least, most do. We saw GOP head quarters firebombed. Trump properties vandalized and defaced. Trump signs smashed, stolen, run down. Houses of Trump supporters attacked and again, vandalized.
How many Trump/Pence bumper stickers did you see out there? I didn't see any. Probably because people thought their cars would be keyed, etc. It was so publicly unpopular to be a Trump supporter, it was dangerous. So when asked, no one in their right mind would say they supported Trump. Yet many, when in the privacy of their own ballot box, did what they felt they had to do.
It could be that the media's asinine plan to make people feel bad for their choice of candidate worked against the very polling measures the media relied on for accurate polling. Wouldn't that be poetic.
Drumpf's win does not make your algo right. It's right only in the broken clock kind of way.Perfect cap to this thread.
The vast majority of polls were fake for months were fake. Using D plus 7 to to D plus 10 or worse.... some did not even reveal their templates.
We predicted they would unskew and then we could tell you what was going on.
When they did last week we saw that the national vote was in the margin for error.
Then we were able to use Nate Silvers simulations to surmise Trump had a good chance to win the electoral college. Nate said if the national vote was less than 2% hillarys favor trump could win the electoral college. This made us more optimistic than nate because the algo let us know that the correct voter tally was that the national vote was less than 2% in hillarys favor.
tldr...
So the call was... wait until the crooked polls unskew or herd in front of the election and then we could tell you what was going on. When they unskewed we knew it was inside the margin for error.
the algo go it right. tony stark and the mass media polls were fake... for months and months til they unskewed.
P.S.
Thanks to Tony for being a partisan but somewhat entertaining contributor.
He was probably not paid to post anymore so I can understand why he is not here today.
As far as the rest of you lefties... did any of you play sports growing up when you were forming your character?