Six hundred days after the 2016 election, many US voters remain deeply skeptical of, if not hostile to, political polling.
The national polls in 2016 were actually fairly accurate: Hillary Clinton was supposed to win the popular vote by about three points and she ended up winning by two.
But election models portraying Clinton as a sure thing left her supporters feeling betrayed when, thanks to the electoral college, the presidency fell to Donald Trump. For those voters today, mistrust of surveys can take on an almost spiritual vehemence. CONT.
Tom McCarthy, Guardian