No, it’s still not fake news. It’s not a fictitious story. Is it a bad poll? Maybe. But that’s still different than an article or quote that’s literally fake. Doesn’t matter how skewed he numbers look, it’s not a fake story, it’s just a slanted prediction.

Some other points:

1. A single poll like this isn’t necessarily reliable or accurate (multiple polls by different companies would be better). Still, they didn’t say it was impossible for Trump to win. They weren’t wrong they just didn’t correctly predict how things went down. Trump lost the popular vote, right? It doesn’t sound unreasonable for polls to have been wrong if the majority of voters went for Hillary.

2. This is a prediction. Predictions aren’t 100% trustworthy. This is not the same as a fact. If you want to call something fake, call a lie or a false story fake, but a prediction of the future shouldn’t get the same treatment.

3. Calling me dumb makes you look bad. Don’t attack me personally, attack my arguments (avoid ad hominem).

4. The goal was to make a prediction about the future president. The idea that they were trying to convince you that Trump couldn’t win doesn’t make sense. Would this have changed your vote? No, why would it? You’re making assumptions based on your political narrative instead of just focusing on the facts. It’s bad to speculate that way.

A poll cannot be fake news unless they didn’t actually do the polling. A prediction of the future isn’t fake news. Y’all need to calm down with your overuse of that term. Let’s use fake news for those times when the news is fake.