General Discussion

David Plouffe talked about it in late November.

People saw the polls they wanted to see and dismissed anything that worked against it.

The final polls from AtlasIntel (probably the polling outfit I trust most) showed the same story. When a friend sent me their final state predictions the morning of the election, that was my first "Uh oh" moment, because they were showing the swing state sweep that we ultimately saw.

I think some of the "something stinks" feeling comes from the fact that reality arrived for a narrative that was dismissive of it. When narrative and facts collide, there's going to be some dissonance whose severity depends on how far apart those two things were.