If we ever have a real election again, please shut the fuck up about the polls being rigged [View all]

Other than the obvious fake polls, the major pollsters were actually trying to get good numbers. Some might have fallen into "herding" behavior, but they weren't trying to do anything nefarious even if that happened, and if there was any error caused by herding, it was small.

They weren't selling number that clients asked them to provide.

The news services weren't requesting tight numbers to boost ratings.

The people on the news telling us it was a tight race weren't just saying that to boost ratings.

This race was, and still is, just as fucking close as we were being told. The polls, for all their flaws, pretty much painted the picture we're seeing right now.