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Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by LordKano on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:03PM (#13537517)
The same polls that predicted Hillary's win?

I'm not buying it.

Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:57AM (#13538633)
> The same polls that predicted Hillary's win Nope; one because the Gallup daily Presidential approval tracking poll is not an election poll; two because polls don't predict anything, models that use polling data as an input do.

> I'm not buying it.

Facts remain facts regardless of whether they are convenient to your preferred team.

Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by brewdad on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:58AM (#13538643)
Hilary did win. The popular vote. Which is really what most of the polls were tracking. 80,000 votes out of 130,000,000+ swung the EC. Aside from holding an actual election, no poll can get the margin of error down to that level. The polls were not wrong. They were polls.
Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by LordKano on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:29AM (#13540929)
History can't be retconned this quickly.

The polls were done state by state and showed Hillary with a substantial electoral college advantage over Trump.

These poll results weren't about reporting on the feelings of the electorate, they were about trying to influence them.