The results are in. So let's discuss all those polls. - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : It ended with Harris leading Trump nationally by just one-tenth of one percent.
53% : Trump ended up winning the state by 13 -- a 16-point miss.
52% : As of Monday afternoon, Trump led Harris in the national popular vote by 1.68 percent, securing 312 electoral votes -- well beyond the 270 needed to win.
51% : Had Harris won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan -- the so-called "blue wall" states -- she would have clinched the presidency, even with Trump winning the other four swing states.
39% : Trump, by contrast, altered the traditional electorate, mobilizing less frequent voters who already supported him to simply turn out and vote.
32% : Looking at the aggregate polls, the race began in November 2022 tied down to the decimal point between President Biden and Trump, who had announced his candidacy that month.
13% : It's worth noting that in 2016, when many believed the polls were wrong, they were still statistically accurate when comparing national polls to the popular vote results -- where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton defeated Trump.

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