The polls were close. And the networks you chose to to watch convinced you this thing is going to be close.
I remember watching FOX NEWS and certain Mitt Romney was going to win.
I was wrong.
And in THAT election the polls were as close as they were in 2012 per RCP.
The same thing happened to Democratic voters this time around.
What polls were you watching? Romney losing was a foregone conclusion leading into that election.
shareFOXNEWS and the RCP average.
shareI guess that's not surprising. Fox is the right-wing news channel, so they may have been optimistic about Romney's chances. At the time, it seemed like the overwhelming consensus was that Obama was going to have a cakewalk to another 4 years.
This year's election seems to show that traditional media has been upended. From what I saw on Reddit, Facebook, the New York Times, and pretty much every traditional news outlet, the race was going to be close, and Harris was probably going to edge out Trump. Yet, it was all clearly phony, and for the first time in my lifetime, it seemed that people were seeing through the curtain at the man pulling the levers. Fake news stories and outright lies that would have swayed popular opinion in years past were rendered inert by the existence of Twitter, the one uncensored, unbiased platform for news.
Twitter was the only news platform where people weren't being censored, and without the thumb of the mods on the scale, you got an honest look at public opinion, and journalists could share news that was being suppressed everywhere else. Anyone who looked at Twitter new that Trump as going to win rather easily.