The popular vote disparity was due solely to California, and the fact that the Democrats and Media were doing everything in their power to prevent an electoral landslide for Donald Trump.
Without California, Donald Trump wins the popular vote. Given the slant of the Media, the self-fulfilling prophecy they tried to concoct almost worked.
Additionally, the state polls in virtually all the "battleground" states were way off.
The Establishment was almost able to engineer a Hillary victory by using every smear tactic, character assassination, and propaganda technique known to man.
So, it's rather disingenuous to ascribe the polls much credibility, given the environment in which they were conducted and presented, and given that their sole intent was to manipulate public opinion, not report it.
They thought the fix was in, and they actually had it "rigged", but the American People—despite overwhelming demonization of Donald Trump—failed miserably...
They thought the fix was in, and they actually had it "rigged", but the American People—despite overwhelming demonization of Donald Trump—had other ideas and the Media failed miserably...