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I will admit a good number of them were off, but a good number of them were correct as well. Here's the interesting thing to me. The day before the election most of the polls had Clinton up by 1-3 points, but most of those polls have a margin of error of 3points so basically they were tied. And that is how it played out on a national scale. Hillary won the popular vote, Trump won the Electoral College.
The biggest polls that were wrong were those in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Some polls had her winning Wisconsin by 6 points and clearly, they were wrong.
I don't think the polls were fudged in that I don't think they massaged the date to give her a lead. I do think there were a good number of people who were either completely off the pollster's radar or who flat out lied to the polls who planned to vote Trump all along, but didn't want to say so.
If that is what happened, clearly they will have to change how they operate going forward. If, by chance, they did fudge them and massage the data they now look like idiots for doing so.
I also think they underestimated how may Republicans would actually vote for Trump. There was a lot of talk about Republicans bailing on Trump and not voting for Trump, but in the end 90% of Republicans voted for him. I think that was something a lot of people, myself included, didn't think would happen. I thought it might be more like 75%
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