If a client pays for a 15-question poll, the pollster is obligated a 15-question interview. So, is someone says "Because fuck you" and hangs up, the couldn't use the candidate preference data. Hagner said about a third of Trump respondents did this.

and only want to say they support their cult leader.

Hagner thinks pollsters' attempts to compensate MAY lead to inflated numbers for the GOP.

Sounds like a good theory.

And that Republicans did it more than Democrats. Interesting.

538 had Clinton's chance of winning at 70%. That's nice, but hardly a shoe-in. The 30% possibility coming true is hardly that damning of the polling in a tight race.

It was people's expectations and punditry that were way off base, much further off base than the raw numbers.

Polls are not science, they are shots in the dark OR creatively crafted narrative starters.

Oh, wait, I get it, by pretending the polls from the past were wrong for...reasons, we can continue to pretend current polls are perfectly correct now. Got it.

Did they include those calls? If so, that could explain why the downballot Dems underperformed, if they didn't stay on long enough to answer the downballot questions. That could also explain why so many downballot Dems are outperforming the top of the ticket this time.