Over half of voters were surprised by Trump’s win — including Republicans, new poll reveals
Some 54 percent of people were at least quite surprised by the outcome of the election, with 14 percent of those “very surprised.” A third were not very surprised, and 16 percent not surprised at all.
Andrew Gordon, researcher at Prolific, explained that this surprise correlates to difficulties with polling in a polarized environment.
We must assume that millions of voters thought Kamala Harris was a plausible candidate, the media weren't biased in her favour and the world wasn't laughing at her ignorance, obvious limitations and absurd word salads.
There's a lesson there, unfortunately it's one we learned a long time ago.
3 comments:
When you consider that most Democrat voters thought that Harris would win and that an appreciable number of the Republican voters feared the election was rigged against Trump then surprise is a natural response.
In a world where Harris can be transformed overnight from a useless lame-duck VP to a "great hope", where she performs in an inanely pointless way yet still apparently gets taken seriously, nothing is really very surprising. Even having her in public office means that all bets are off. Had they announced on the morning of the 6th that she had pulled out and that Biden had won four more years in a landslide victory, people would have just shrugged.
DJ - for a Democrat candidate slightly less ridiculous than Harris, some surprise might be expected, but to my mind she was so dire that voters should not have been surprised by an even bigger Trump victory.
Sam - yes, the transformation should have given the game away for all voters, but apparently it didn't. After that, a shrug would have fitted any outcome.
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