Well, they shouldn't.
The point of polls is to predict who's going to win.
It's not that hard to take into account Electoral College anyways.
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The point of polls is to predict who's going to win.
It's not that hard to take into account Electoral College anyways.
Republicans were trained over the years to pick someone "electable". They figured it would go better with the population, electoral votes.
So in 2008, they went with McCain, a Republican who supported campaign finance reform.
In 2012, they went with Romney, a Republican who was governor of Massachusetts, a traditionally moderate/liberal state, who implemented Romneycare.
Both of them were normal, Romney made a faux-pas regarding the %47 line, but all in all he would have been an OK president, and kept the Republicans moderate.
The media slaughtered him in the general election. Called Republicans racists (which I didn't notice him being), classists (umm, do you think Clinton would live in a project?), and he couldn't answer back.
That's why in 2016, the base got fed up with having to hold their nose and vote a moderate, they decided that if they're losing anyways, they might as well pick someone "who says it the way it is". Now when the media says that he's a racit, they say "Oh, like they called Bush (who had an African American Secretary of State) racist? They just hate Republicans".
Liberals cried wolf. They refused to have a conversation, and we ended up with Trump.