Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "Election Shock: Why the Pollsters Got It Wrong. Secret Revealed!" video.

I would think today there is less need to actively ask people. They can just buy the data from Facebook and Google. They know who you are. They do NOT know however whether you will actually vote or not.
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Wishful thinking. The people who are aware of privacy issues AND act on it in everyday life are way below 1% of the electorate.
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@joemann7971 He is not implying otherwise (I think), he points out the explanation is more to be sought in people that didn't vote this time than in people that kept their vote secret.
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@robbraxmantech It is not so much "dark voters" that caused the outcome as it were "dark non-voters". Both parties lost big, trump got millions of votes less than he did in the previous cicle. Dems just lost even bigger. Lots of people turned away from the whole circus because they lost faith in it. These likely did not participate in any polls either and pollsters just assumed these voters still existed and would turn up again. So I think apathy and disappointment (particularly with foreign policy) seem to have been a more significant factor than privacy savvyness.
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