President Trump: Polling the Result - How surprised by result were you?

[Clark-Kent]

I personally was all set in my mind to accept that Hillary was winning, and Trump wouldn't build a wall but would hit the wall... in votes. Based on all the scientific polling this was impossible.

Poll: How surprised by the result were you?

1 representing least surprised, all the way up to 5 representing most surprised.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

When all started i thought that, there is no way that moron can win.

But, by September, i started to think..."yeah, he will win this"

I'm really sad i was right....

 

[Alex Murphy]

5..

 

[Clark-Kent]

@Isildur´s Heir

I'm a bit of a numbers person. Seeing other elections and polling data were much closer to accurate, I literally thought this was impossible. Were you keeping up with polling data and still managed to think Trump would pull off another surprise?

 

[Kyle]

Very surprised about the result. Not surprised by the initial reactions. Very surprised that it feels like we're back to the 60s/70s with many dividing into separate teams already - MLK, X, Black Panthers, bigots, and the neutrals. The last one I'm the most distressed, disturbed, and saddened by.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

@Isildur´s Heir

I'm a bit of a numbers person. Seeing other elections and polling data were much closer to accurate, I literally thought this was impossible. Were you keeping up with polling data and still managed to think Trump would pull off another surprise?

Pollings are getting it wrong all over the world.....either by incompetence or by design (conspiracy theory).
But one thing is sure, the more the polls give a certain candidate to win, the least amount of their supporters will vote by thinking it's in the bag.

But i remember the news stating that Hillary was losing ground close to Trump, she lost a lot of points in a single week.

Then, as Michael Moore wrote in an open letter a couple of days ago, Bernie Sanders just disappeared from Hillary's side (don't know why), which made his supporters depressed and lacking the will to vote and bring others with them.
That disappearance played a huge role.

But then there is Trump's slogan.
This might sound dumb, but the words "America" and "Great" made the patriotic bigots crazy and "come out to play"
Like i said before, at the eyes of the world, one of your biggest problems is the exaggerated and blind patriotism.
All you have to do is scream "America" and wave the flag and people go nuts.
It's great that you love your country, but, more important than that is the WORLD.

Oh yeah, and Trump got the Midwest

 

[childeroland]

Flabbergasted. I really thought she'd win it by a hair and that she had Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the bag.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

I assumed there would be some level of polling error like in 2008 and 2012. And there was. The very bad news is the polling error favored Trump and not Clinton and the last second undecideds broke for Trump when voting which ate into her popular vote lead - especially in certain geographic areas. She'll win the people's vote, but lost the presidency on geography.

 

[2kt09]

Oh yeah, and Trump got the Midwest

Quite the understatement. <- Lmfao at Hillary's "gains"
Plus, the county map perspective is even more astounding.

The pundits, the analysts, the commentators, the comedians, the celebrities, the Democratic Party...
are just now realizing that they only have themselves to blame.
Go by this site, even. How much more passion do you think one candidate was receiving over another?

 

[Thundercrack85]

I knew it would be a lot closer than they said it would be. But I didn't think so much of the country would vote for a man that unqualified and deplorable.

 

[Shikamaru]

I predicted he'd win back in May. I based this on polls, historical trends, and the way each ran their campaigns. It literally didn't surprise me one bit.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I'm not surprised.

 

[BatmanVSuperman]

He pulled so far ahead, in a map that I had thought would favor Hillary. This is crazy!

 

[Lily Adler]

I panicked when the primaries began and he was still in it after he first announced The Wall.

 

[Clark-Kent]

I figured the primaries were somehow not representative at all for chances in a general election. The media kept saying he has a 38% ceiling or so. Then in GE the media kept laughing off his chance against Hillary, and the polling data supported that notion. It really made this come out of left field.

 

[Victarion]

I was more surprised when my people came out liking posts mocking the election night reaction to Trump's victory. At the back of my mind...I just had this little nagging...the more you tell someone not to do something, the more likely they are to do it.