Instead of offering definitive answers to the country’s biggest questions, the 2016 election results provoke even larger questions. How could the forecasters and the campaigns themselves been so wrong? What and maybe who did all the pollsters miss? Was there a late breaking voter phenomenon that was hard to measure?
These are critically important questions, and investigations are already underway. We may find answers to many of them; we may find others where the evidence will not be conclusive. But we need to let the chips fall where they may, including on my plate as a pollster with a newer platform. CONT.
Jon Cohen, SurveyMonkey