Trump's populist image goes poof
The article discusses the unpredictability of political polling and suggests that Donald Trump has alienated his voter base. It questions the accuracy of current election forecasts and the reliability of political prognosticators.
As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Donald Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And yet, if there has ever been a politician who has invited electoral repudiation by more thoroughly betraying his own voters than Trump has, I can't think of one.Trump had the most zealous followers…
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