In the primaries, the polls usually did just fine. The problem was with people — myself very much included front and center — who said early on to ignore the polls, and even after the primaries and caucuses began believed the polls wouldn’t predict future events. That might suggest to pay less attention to experts and pundits and other prognosticators next time around — but it might also suggest to pay more, not less, attention to early polls.

In the general election, once again some pundits were way too quick to count Trump out. But the polls were (mostly) fine; the national polls were more accurate than usual, while the state polls got some states wrong, but not especially more than usual.