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Models are based on input. >> that's right. >> and in a sense it may be fair to say since the polls were wrong -- garbage in, garbage out. here's my question, though, this was not just a few polls. in the last five months i'm guessing there were about 150, 200 polls done. maybe trump was up in 15, 20 of those. hillary was up in the vast majority. vast, vast, vast majority. why were they so wrong? >> it's hard to say at this point but i think it's worth clarifying how they were wrong. it seems to me that the preponderance of the eviden preponderance of the polling error were found in the upper ...

Is important to understand. not to get you off the hook, but models are based on input. >> that's right. >> and in a sense, it may be fair to say since the polls were wrong, garbage in, garbage out. here's my question, though. this was not just a few polls. in the last five months, i'm guessing there were about 150, 200 polls done. maybe trump was up in 15, 20 of those. hillary was up in the vast majority. vast, vast, vast majority. why were they all so wrong? >> i think it's hard to say at this point but i think it's worth clarifying how they were wrong. it seems to me that the preponderance ...

Voting. the fact of the matter is if you want to enact change, you have to get involved. i don't mean for the folks on the street, i mean for the folks who voted for donald trump, and everybody who has a say in what our democracy is. >> some of the anger may be no other way to say it, a shocking outcome. you said it's totally over. if trump wins more than 240 votes i think i will eat a bug. we don't want you to eat a bug, but all the polls were wrong. >> i made a promise. >> all the polls were wrong including yours and we were up here saying it as the jou journalists and the pollsters, what ha...

Races, three or four points for the presidency, and basically, it was -- it's a polling error that's pretty large and as a race that was pretty for that l narrowly contested. undecided voters who made their minds up at the last minute or who are able to state their preference, maybe they weren't away what their preference is, because donald trump is a uniquely popplarizing candidate. there's something strongly polarizing about him and what's happening on the streets is almost certainly a reaction to the unprecedented nature of his candidacy sgmpt glor candidacy. >> gloria borger, back to you. ...

The polling error. >> they say there were machine issues early on. they have lines and they're trying to keep the polls open in this county. 2.8%, about 3% of the state's population. why are democrats saying keep it open? let's go back in history. here in 2012, durham county, 76% for the democrat, president obama. 23% for mitt romney. if you go back to 2008 when president obama carried the state pretty much the same. you pull out to the map here. that's 2008. go back to 2012. obviously this area of the state, the raleigh/durham area is absolutely critical in this battleground state. durham in ...