Here’s something else that pollsters got very wrong on Election Day

[Andy Meek]

• Tuesday's election results offered plenty of surprises, beyond the lingering question mark over whether President Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will emerge victorious in the race for the White House.
• It was assumed that President Trump's high negatives would drag down the GOP up and down the ballot.
• That prediction from pollsters turned out to be a little wide of the mark. Not only did the GOP seemingly retain control of the Senate, but it also ate into the Democrats' lead in the House of Representatives.

Tuesday's election results, in spite of the still-uncalled race that all of us are continuing to watch closely, produced more surprises beyond the lack of an outcome so far for the most important race of all -- the one for the White House.

In fact, you could argue that the lack of an official winner yet in the contest between President Trump and Joe Biden was not much of a surprise at all. We were certainly among the outlets predicting that a so-called "red mirage" on Election Day would begin to dissipate as late-counted ballots and mail-in votes began to alter the totals. Although, to be sure, I thought the Election Night tally at least initially would look more favorable to Trump, whose count was perceived to rely less on the mail-in ballots that Biden supporters would send in. In fact, Trump stayed short of Biden in the electoral tally for pretty much all of Tuesday.

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