If you believe in learning from your mistakes, here is everything we and plenty others seemed to get wrong in the general election:
That the poll numbers showing Donald Trump's percentage in the high 30s and low 40s couldn't grow;
That a seemingly stable race -- with Hillary Clinton holding a consistent lead -- wouldn't change at the end;
That the votes out of Urban America and its suburbs would overwhelm the votes out of Rural America;
That Clinton was the one expanding the political map versus Trump doing it;
That changing demographics assured Democratic success in presidential contests, unless the GOP made an explicit appeal to minority voters;
That the Obama coalition could be transferred to another Democrat;
That Trump couldn't win if he got a lower percentage of white voters than Mitt Romney did four years ago;
That the party's that's more united has the advantage in a presidential contest over the more divide party;
That the conventions and presidential debates actually mattered;
That a small band of partisans couldn't get away with trying to delegitimize the media;
And that a presidential candidate who demolished so many norms (not releasing tax returns, talking about jailing an opponent, threatening not to respect the election's outcome) would pay a price for them in the end.
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