2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe best poll analysis side is NY Times/Upshot
If you haven't checked it out, NYT has the best polling site. They have their own in-house methodology, they show you what all the major predictors are showing, and have interactive tools to let you test out different scenarios.
The short version is that probability estimates -- using rather different predictive methodologies -- vary between 86% and 98%.
If you'd told us 18 months ago that that's how the Democratic candidates would have stood... well, we'd have been delighted. Let's not let the ugliness obscure the bigger picture.
Still -- donate, vote!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fupshot&action=click&contentCollection=upshot®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We're unhappy because it's not a huge majority, but we are most Americans.
Cakes488
(874 posts)I'm up to like 40$ in donations...I was so disgusted with Trashpots speech I called 5 voters in swing states.
We just have to be patient...keep our eyes on the prize...he will fall and his empire will crumble too.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)WillyBrandt
(3,892 posts)Hey - you and I are 100% on the same side here re primary stuff, I think, but:
- Let the GOP be dis-unified; Dems are together
- Bernie himself has been a total mensch since conceding -- really good
- Nearly all his supporters have united behind Hillary
So -- focus on hurting Trump, helping Hillary.
We can pick apart the primary again after the election as an exercise, but not before -- just a few more weeks
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)I don't intend to refight the primary. But we all should remember how low we all can go.