For pollsters, the 2016 presidential election will go down as more than an embarrassment — it threatens to spiral into an existential crisis.
At the moment we needed them most, when the nation was desperate for accurate projections, many pollsters whiffed.
Although most correctly predicted Hillary Clinton’s narrow popular-vote victory, vaunted poll averages and complex mathematical forecasts largely failed to envision Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency through a convincing triumph in the Electoral College. CONT.
Nathan Bomey , USA Today