Don’t Look To The Bookies. They Blew The 2016 Election, Just Like The Pollsters.
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Don’t Look To The Bookies. They Blew The 2016 Election, Just Like The Pollsters.

One bookmaker lost $4 million paying out bets on Hillary Clinton

Joseph Curl

Political pollsters are like weathermen — they can completely blow the forecast and never get fired.

That’s what nearly all of the pollsters did in 2016. The overwhelming consensus was that Hillary Clinton would crush Donald Trump in the election.

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