This just in: The media called the 2016 presidentialĀ election correctly … sort of.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is leading Donald J. Trump by just a shade less than 2 percentage points in the popular vote. She’s up by 2.5 million votes and the number might climb.
So, why are the media taking such a battering over “missing” the results? Oh, yes. The Electoral College.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/live_results/2016_general/president/map.html
The media and the pollsters all across the country might have been too transfixed by the overall national mood and less intrigued by what was happening in rural communities blanketing those critical “swing states” that voted for Trump on Nov. 8.
I won’t give the media a pass.
I’ll just note that the RealClearPolitics average of polls had Clinton leading Trump nationally by 2 to 5 percentage points. She’s going to finish with a 2-percentage point “victory” in the popular vote.
That won’t get her a ticket — let alone the keys — to the White House.
If the media fell short, they missed the signs that were developing in rural America that propelled Donald Trump to the victory that shocked ’em all.