"Fake News": The Emergence of a Post-Fact World

[Odin]

(01-14-2017, 10:53 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

(01-14-2017, 10:49 PM)Odin Wrote:

(01-14-2017, 07:59 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Warren,

How about the 99%+ odds of Hillary Clinton winning the election?  The inability of a lot of these outlets to see how they have managed to destroy their own credibility over the years, and their consequent finger-pointing at teenagers in Macedonia as the cause of all of their problems is quite amusing.

I don't remember any major poll having 99% odds. IIRC the guys at 538 had it at 70-30 right before election day. AFAIK know polls were not that off, what happened was that a lot of the Clinton's voters were in already very blue states, but she lost WI, MI, and PA by 78,000 votes.

Well there was HuffPo, ABC's George Stephanopoulos, MSNBC's Sam Wang...

Nate was getting a lot of push back from people for putting Clinton's chances as low (70% right before the election, as you said) as he did.

I was meaning the major mainstream pollsters.