So I just watched this bit of Jimmy Kimmel:
Where apparently people on the street are interviewed, very clearly told that it’s now Wednesday, November 6th, and asked how they’ll vote, who they vote for, and what they hope the outcome will be. Now, I get you can always find a few information-deprived people if you look long enough, but there are six different individuals in apparently the same spot and within a not-too-long timeframe. Is there something else going on? Is it possible they thought this was going to be a sort of mock-interview from the actual election day, and played along?
I mean, it can’t really be the case that a not negligible fraction of people simply hasn’t noticed the election is over? There seems to have been close to a record turnout, after all, and even cursory exposure to any sort of news media at all would certainly inform anybody of the outcome. Or is the information landscape really that fragmented? Is that really possible? I’m at a loss, here.