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Exit poll?

Anyways, exit polls are tools used by news outlets to predict election results during the time lap – during the hours after votes are cast and before final results are formally announced.

That’s it. Oh, one more comment. If this year’s American Presidential election tells anything (and it tells many people different things according to their politics, religion, sex or sexual orientation, not to mention the colors of their skin), it tells us that this election-year’s opinion polls (after-the-fact exit polls excepted) are not to be trusted.

For one thing, an overwhelming number of polls in the immediate run-up to the election has Clinton winning, and mostly by a comfortable margin, too.

In the end, however, Trump was the one to celebrate. And he, too, as a matter of fact, won quite comfortably, judging by Electoral College votes.

How did this happen?

Well, there are no easy answers to that. So here, now, let’s read media examples of “exit polls”:

1. Social and intellectual conventions are supposed to settle slowly, but conventional wisdom can congeal instantly and without much wisdom. That’s what has happened over the past several weeks with a prevailing interpretation of this year’s presidential election -- the great “moral values” theory.

The Big Political Idea of the 2004 election goes something like this: “Moral values” turned out to be the most important issue to voters, not the economy or the Iraq war or terrorism. President Bush won because a legion of “values voters” -- whose growing numbers escaped the attention of an inattentive media -- preferred him. The Democrats are doomed until they can woo the voters who belong to this new political force.