Just a reminder, NOBODY OWNS TRUMP. The future will be interesting since "The devil is in the details".

As I posted several times, most of the polls were miniscule samples, some with biased questions and others not statistically designed. When I looked at the larger sampled statistical polls in the last few days before the election it was clear that Trump would likely outperform the expectations. And he did.

More, the MSM (including Fox news- at least their hosts) were bought and paid for by the DNC. The behavior of the Fox news commentators was fatalistic with every positive remark about DTs positive progress.

NO fan of DT but this has to make me think he may be the shake-up the country needs.

They may have been rigged. But I think that many pollsters disregarded the most important group that needed polling, the folks of the heartland who have been putting up with crappy ideology which affects their lives Polling is more complicated than many think it is. The demographics, the way the question is framed, the nature of the question itself, and don't forget, the integrity of the pollster.

The interesting thing is that the polls can also DRIVE votes in the opposite direction. If I am leaning towards candidate X and I'm told X is in the lead, I may decide that its too much of a hassle to wait in line, etc. However, finding out that Y is leading may make me take that extra step to actually go out and vote.

The same goes for election night results coming through. Polls are still open on the West Coast while we're hearing ("with 1% precincts reporting") that Y is in the lead or captured a key state may drive voters out west to reconsider whether they show up or not.

If I were running for a national office, I would actually want to be a couple points behind in the polls on the Monday/Tuesday of election week (or, ideally, be leading by a huge margin at that point).

I watched Fox and the Blaze; My wife abc...there was a bigger difference between the two than the distance between each side in the continental divide.

In the last couple of days before the election I was looking at the undecided -- which was frequently not in the charts. It was running about 4-5%. Either it was closet Trump support or broke for the outsider at the end.

deplorables dont always advertise their deplorable nature !! So the polls wont know

Trump outperformed his poll showing in almost every primary as well as the general election. I think that from the start, there were quite a few voters who favored Trump but were unwilling to say so, even to a pollster, lest they be thought "deplorable."

This election was unique in the history of the US. There has never been another one where the losing side was so convinced, right up to the start of the election, that they'd win, AND was so convinced that their opponent was the essence of evil. Keep this in mind and have sympathy for your lefty friends. Don't mock them.

The polls are based on popular vote. Hillary won the popular vote. So, are the polls rigged? (Don't get me wrong, I certainly did not vote for Hillary!)

When Clinton/Sanders supporters began the labeling of Trump supporters as the seven deadly sins I won't name them but we all know what they are. This labeling created a silence among people saying nothing or even masking their support for a good hair day.

http://patriotupdate.com/give-em-hell...

In regards the thread title...

Of course they were rigged it is in the interest of the pollster to keep being paid for their services. This means immense pressure to shade the numbers and methodology to yield the result your client is seeking. Or as close to it as you can reasonably manage.

So the polls were adjusted by the pollsters. For Clinton you over sample Democrats and under sample republicans. If you need more margin you oversample independents too. Especially in demographic groups friendly to you client.

Not to mention after harassing trump supporters relentlessly on the media, many either would not answer polls or did not answer honestly.

Like the old saying does.....

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

We all know which of the three enables the largest lie.

Political polls can NEVER be statistically valid. The premises are that they have a large sample that is also a random sampling of voters. What self-respecting Objectivist is ever going to respond to a political poll?

It's OPINION POLLS! Not voting polls, dammit!
Just changed the title for the second time today!

Just learned two polls got it right~
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/...

"Rigged" may be too strong a word here. There are many ways a poll can fail to produce an accurate measure of what it purports to be measuring. Most of those ways can happen by accident. Designing a good poll is hard.

Proof of a wrong poll doesn't show proof of intentionally misrepresenting the results that they found. I do think these were genuine mistakes. The difference between getting an answer wrong and lying.

It proves they were wrong, not that they were rigged. You would have to find evidence of intent to prove that they were rigged.

The polls were not rigged. For no apparent reason, 3% of the voters suddenly decided to switch from Hillary to Trump on election day. :-)