The Heat: Media, polls and US politics

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The Heat: Media, polls and US politics

By most accounts, Donald Trump’s win came as a surprise to all but his millions of supporters. Going into election night, the conventional wisdom had Hillary Clinton winning in a close race.

But political prognosticating is not an exact science. Still most pollsters and political analysts are rarely this far wrong. So what happened?

To put the election and the polling result in perspective, tonight’s panel includes: