While the polls had HRC as clear winner so many times over the past 6 months I noticed one very interesting anomaly.
I have had numerous friends over the election year post a common facebook status which garnered a crazy amount of responses, "go to HRC's and Trump's FB Pages and report back how many of your friends "like" each candidate".
Now this isn't the best sample size or polling method, but regardless of the posters race, socioeconomic status, gender, geographic location, etc the people commenting swayed to Trump in overwhelming numbers. All this while the "polls" on TV and in the papers reported a HRC lead.
I think the media being widely liberal tried to make it sound like Trump had no chance to the bitter end, and the liberal masses wanted oh so much to believe it.
PS - I am neither a Trump nor HRC supporter, these are merely my observations.