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    Robin Abcarian: If you heed pollsters and pundits (except this one), your head won't stop spinning.

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Nov 07, 2019 3 minutes

    If we've learned anything from the presidential election of 2016, it is that polls are unreliable and pundits are imperfect prognosticators.

    When it comes to presidential elections, to borrow a quote from the great screenwriter William Goldman, "Nobody knows anything."

    Nothing definitive anyway.

    "Donald Trump is not going to win Michigan," was the 100% certain headline on a Nov. 7, 2016, New York magazine column by Jonathan Chait. "And," Chait added on Twitter, "I am frankly offended that people even think

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