this election year has often felt like one enormous swarm of poll numbers, vote forecasts and nonstop statistical analysis. and post-election coverage has provided little relief. how key was the working-class vote to donald j. trump <u+2019>s success? did young voters shy away from hillary clinton ? what about hispanic voters? all this number crunching led the two of us <u+2014> a videographer and a polling editor <u+2014> to wonder what might be missed when we try to explain entire groups as being pro-trump or pro-clinton. if we write that rural voters were especially likely to back mr. trump, are there assumptions that we might be reinforcing, but that actually don<u+2019>t hold true for many rural dwellers? if we say that millennial voters were unlikely to support him, are we getting the full picture? the video above is our attempt to unpack just a few of these broad-stroke terms. we hope it will serve as an invitation to keep digging, and to look at the headlines we see reporting exit poll statistics as only telling part of the story. (this video was produced in collaboration with pov , the independent documentary showcase, for the race/related newsletter. sign up .)
exit poll oversimplification
saleem reshamwala giovanni russonello