Watch this pollster eat a bug on live TV after his election prediction went horribly wrong
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Pollster Sam Wang of Princeton University was really confident Hillary Clinton would win the election. Like, really confident. So confident, in fact, that in mid-October he tweeted a promise to "eat a bug" if Donald Trump "wins more than 240 electoral votes."
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