Donald Trump won the presidential election despite polls that indicated Hillary Clinton was favored. One popular explanation for this is that some people were afraid to admit to pollsters that they supported Trump — what’s being called the “shy Trump” phenomenon. …
It will probably be weeks or months before we fully understand why the polls underestimated Trump in many states in the general election. But there are several reasons to doubt that shyness on the part of his supporters was a major part of the explanation. CONT.
Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight