What Looked Like a Toss-Up Turned Into a Red Wave. Did Pollsters Get It Wrong?
While many states were more or less as tight as the polls suggested, the errors were all in the same direction: underestimating Trump.
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To anyone following the presidential election, the polls made the race out to be a real nail-biter that could take days, if not weeks, to decide. Yet here we are on the morning after Election Day, and Donald Trump has won convincingly, besting Kamala Harris in five swing states and leading her in the other two. His win is part of a broad American shift to the right: Republicans have taken control of the Senate and are poised to retain their majority in the House.
Did the polls get it wrong? Well, it certainly doesn’t feel like they got it right. But it’ll take weeks or months for the industry to do a full autopsy to know what went wrong, and just how wrong things went.