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.
I'm not buying it.