James Surowiecki of The New Yorker has a nineteen-tweet string on what the press missed about Trump’s win. The string starts at 10:22 AM – 5 Jan 2017 and ends at 10:48 AM – 5 Jan 2017.
It’s worth reading in full, but here are Surowiecki’s 5 key tweets:
1. My least-favorite post-election meme is the idea that the liberal media missed just how popular Trump was with the white working class.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) January 5, 2017
4. But from the start, there was an endless flow of articles about Trump’s working-class base, and why he was connecting with those voters.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) January 5, 2017
11. What the liberal media missed, instead, was that so many college-educated whites would also end up supporting Trump.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) January 5, 2017
13. The mistake I, and I think many others, made was thinking that Trump wouldn’t win the college-educated white vote.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) January 5, 2017
16. Trump did do worse with college-educated independents than Romney, but not by enough to cost him the election.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) January 5, 2017