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It’s the End of Polling As We Know It
Pollsters aren’t feeling fine.
It’s been one week since American voters flooded to the polls in record numbers.
Much to the chagrin of the Democratic Party and its champions in the legacy media, voters overwhelmingly chose much-derided former President Donald Trump over much-ballyhooed VP Kamala Harris.
In the week since Election Day, the media landscape has been littered with bad news for progressives.
“Democrats Can’t Offer Voters Less for More,” fumed Ross Barkan for The Intelligencer on Tuesday.
“The voter shift that should alarm Democrats most,” warned Youyou Zhou and Heather Long for the Washington Post on November 10. “Data shows the urban liberal bubble is on the verge of bursting. Donald Trump won more votes than he had before almost everywhere in the United States. Voters shifted right in rural areas, in suburbs and even in New York City.”
“Democrats and the Case of Mistaken Identity Politics,” Maureen Dowd barked for the New York Times on November 9, 2024. “Some Democrats are finally waking up and realizing that woke is broke.”
The disappointing performance of the Harris campaign is still being felt in Democratic districts across the country. Not even progressive leaders in Harris’ home district survived the Great…