Election Day Poll No. Whatever

Off by about 2.4 points, which is as close as polls get. She had a lead between 3-4, will wind up winning popular vote between 1.2-2. Polls of less than 1000 likely voters don't account for electoral college.

 

Coke, Budweiser and McDonald's have huge market shares. There's a reason they still spend millions on advertising.

 

Trump also did an excellent job of picking his way through traffic. He seemed to have a knack for finding his opponent's weakness and exposing it, from the primaries all the way through the general election. Christie and Rubio got obliterated, Cruz just got annoyed into submission, and maybe this is giving him too much credit but Hillary probably got overconfident while he played the fool.
Trump used his strength as a natural showman to his advantage. His rallies were entertaining events, and he used media access to his advantage. I think it was Megyn Kelly who pointed out last night that access to Hillary was very tight, while Trump basically did a freewheeling press conference or two every day at his rallies. You might not have liked what he had to say, but at least he was accessible and said something.
Those are two important traits. The first, I think, can help him be an effective leader. It shows he knows how to work people, which can definitely be used to get things done and be productive. The second is something we in the media should hope he continues, although now that he doesn't need us it'll be interesting to see if he does.

 

It has been three months since Trump had a press availability. Your post is just a myth.

 

Only about six pages through this thread and it is gold, comedy gold.

 

I watched him take questions in the spin room immediately after one of the debates.

 

I was one, should have actually put money on it.

 

[raises hand]

Saw exactly one Clinton/Kaine lawn sign and no bumper stickers, and I live in a blue county in a state that went blue as recently as 2008.

 

There were a sprinkling of lawn signs in my town for Clinton. The tipoff for me as to how people felt about this election came when I went to Cape Cod. The population there is VERY politically active because it's one of the few places in Massachusetts that's pretty evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. So there are zillions of lawn signs every election. There were this year, too -- for local races. Clinton signs were sparse, and I saw more Gary Johnson signs than Trump signs. Trump's problem now is what Clinton's would've been had she won, distrust and dislike from a majority of the public.

 

That's certainly something we can agree upon.

 

Gary Johnson carried Martha's Vineyard!

 

Does he know what and where Martha's Vineyard is?