Poll-itics

My prelim analysis.

Obviously, the polls were very wrong. But why?

From what I can tell, Trump get a much larger percentage of the Republican woman vote than expected, and (likely) slightly higher than Romney in 2012. Misogyny at least among this group didnโ€™t tarnish him at all.

And he got a larger percentage of the Latino vote than Romney. Not surprising โ€” legal immigrants often absolutely loathe illegal ones.

My private supposition: enough Bernie voters moved to Trump to also tip the balance.

The narrative will be just that rural enraged white males made the difference. But Iโ€™m guessing that the above factors I mentioned are the real difference.

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