Most mainstream media as well as most mainstream
polls were predicting overwhelmingly a Hillary
Clinton victory.
Why did they fail to see this coming?
I have ... I think there are a couple of reasons.
But maybe the most interesting one is that,
I think, the democratic strategists totally
misread why and in what way people identify
with Trump.
Most of us who were observing the electoral
process remember how often left liberal media
claimed 'Now we got Donald Trump with his
pants down, in an open embarrassment.'
When he said something improper or made a
mistake and they thought 'Now this is his
end, he committed suicide.'
No!
Not only he didn't, this even helped him.
Because ordinary people didn't identify with
and ideal Trump.
They perceived him as 'one of us' precisely
through is vulgarity, mistakes, and so on
and so on.
That's how political identification works.
That's a big lesson.
