Flawed media narrative in run-up to Nov 8?

IN mid-August, the opinion polls (more about them later) suggested that the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would not only beat her Republican opponent Donald Trump, but could even do so by a big margin. So yours truly authored a report from my neighbourhood in a lofty suburb of the nation's capital, "Washington Establishment rocking: Hillary could win by a landslide in November".

"Early this week, I think I heard a really huge sigh of relief in my neighbourhood, and I believe I saw a lot of smiling faces around," I wrote, noting that Bethesda, Maryland, is the home of professional men and women who work in the capital city: a lot of highly paid federal government officials, lawyers, lobbyists, scientists, and even a few media types (including some of the leading columnists…