Remember when we said---"Trump will never win the GOP primaries!"

[sarisataka]

35. Some of us "Debbie downers"

Were accused of trying to suppress Democratic votes by being negative even as we said every Dem vote will be needed.

We were promised only the rosiest polls were accurate; other polls were "flawed" or "the media wants it to look like a horse race".

The day before the 2016 election:

OP- Groper Don the Con is not leading shit
Some replies:
-I pretty much tune out the polls, but...
...if the polls have a 5% margin of error, that generally means that folks here on DU are going to totally freak out over 1 out of every 20 polls.

-It's all such B.S., probably for t.v. ratings.

-Any rise in TrumpleThinSkin's political fortune at this point. . .
is nothing more than a "dead cat bounce"
from the Wall Street expression that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height".

-The media has a vested interest in making sure it's down to the wire. (or at least appears to.)
I take a deep breath, head over to fivethirtyeight, and relax.

The same thing has happened in every election since and is already showing up for the coming election.