Lumping internet sentiment and polling sentiment in the same boat is a bit egregious don’t you think?! Internet sentiment might help explain why civilians thought he would win (after all, social media algorithms largely show us views and articles that we ‘like’ to see) but internet sentiment is not what experienced political strategists used to predict an overwhelming Clinton Win. That’s were polls and models come in. And yes, the polls and the models were for the most part wrong. But one outlier result isn’t enough to condemn the science that guides electoral strategy. Is it cause to re-visit the assumptions that are used to build these models and conduct these polls? Absolutely.