There have been a few articles on “herding” which I didn’t even know about before this election. I am no pollster, but it sounds like there’s a huge incentive to protect the reputation of the polling firm (“it’s a draw, so we can’t be wrong”) vs reporting numbers they think might make news.

Socialist, green, and marijuana legalization parties make sense on paper. Of course that’s only as long as you ignore how votes are counted, where the money comes from, and their actual listed accomplishments.