How NBC News plans to fix political polls
Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in last year's presidential election left most of America's pollsters, forecasters, and big-data gurus counting the cost of significant damage to their reputations.
The vast majority of number-crunchers - be it traditional polls from players like Fox News and Reuters/Ipsos or complex statistical models from data-journalist Nate Silver and the Princeton Electoral Consortium - predicted the former Secretary of State would easily defeat the real-estate mogul, with Clinton's probability of success pegged at 99% in some cases.
For Dr. John Lapinski, Director/Elections and...