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Many Americans were stunned¹ and blindsided by Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton.

That's largely because months and months of polls pointed² to a defeat of our new president-elect.

Zach Gorchow, editor of Gongwer News Service, joined us today to talk about those polls.

"Polling has a lot of problems. It's just not able to model the electorate³ successfully, and that seems to be especially true in Michigan," Gorchow said. "It just flat out failed to model the African-American turnout correctly, it failed to model the rural turnout correctly."

Gorchow urged us all to take polls with a bigger grain of salt in the future.

"As reporters, we're trained to be skeptical⁴, you know, trust but verify everything. But … the one thing we tend to just sort of accept on faith is polls," he said.

"Hopefully this is the latest wake-up call, and hopefully it's a big wake-up call that we have got to just use this as one piece of the puzzle and not get so obsessed⁵ with it."

1 stunned   

adj. 震惊的，惊讶的 动词stun的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The fall stunned me for a moment. 那一下摔得我昏迷了片刻。
• The leaders of the Kopper Company were then stunned speechless. 科伯公司的领导们当时被惊得目瞪口呆。

2 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

3 electorate   

n.全体选民；选区

参考例句：

• The government was responsible to the electorate.政府对全体选民负责。
• He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate.他得到了几乎1/4选民的支持。

4 skeptical   

adj.怀疑的，多疑的

参考例句：

• Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
• Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。

5 obsessed   

adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的

参考例句：

• He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
• The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。