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Well, so much for polls, pundits and experts.
Republican Donald Trump is the president-elect.
As of 4:15 a.m., he was still leading slightly in Michigan with almost all of the votes in, according to the Detroit News. The Detroit Free Press by around 9:15 p.m., had declared Hillary Clinton the winner.
But as the night went on, no other news organization had done so.
Later in the night, the Free Press had quietly changed the story and written that the nation was looking at Michigan as a key state for Clinton and Trump, and that it was too close to call. Trump eventually took Michigan by more than 13,000 votes.
The talking heads and newscasters and political pundits will be going on and on as to why he pulled off the upset.
Was it that Trump had tapped into a movement in America for change? Had Clinton underestimated that? Did the FBI director's 11th hour letter to Congress change the momentum of the race? Did the WikiLeaks emails prove too much? Was Clinton just too unlikable? Did the Clinton campaign underestimate Trump? Did the barrage of negative news about Obamacare hurt?
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From Earlier Reports
Update: Wednesday, 12:53 a.m. -- Hillary Clinton was still trailing in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania with votes still outstanding. The Free Press earlier in the night had a head predicting that Michigan would go in the win column for Clinton. But that headline was replaced with: "Michigan U.S. Presidential Election Results, Polls."
Update: Tuesday, 11:17 -- Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight now says it may come down to Wisconsin where Trump is leading.
Update: Tuesday: 10:50 p.m. -- Trump lead is narrow in Michigan, but Free Press continues to project Hillary Clinton the winner.
It explains why:
The Detroit Free Press has projected Hillary Clinton to be the winner in Michigan. We talk about how we called Clinton win it in Michigan and what that means for Donald Trump. Jim Schaefer of the Free Press talks to Editorial Director Stephen Henderson, Washington Correspondent Todd Spangler and our polling guru, Tim Kiska, who managed an 80-precinct reporting strategy that allowed us to collect enough data to project a winner.
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Earlier This Evening
A little after 9 p.m., the Detroit Free Press projected that Hillary Clinton was the winner of Michigan.
The prize is 16 electoral votes. Michigan was always regarded as a blue state, but Donald Trump made a push at the end to try to win.
Todd Spangler of the Freep reports:
Sixty-five of 80 key precincts analyzed by the Free Press showed Clinton holding a 4-percentage point lead, less than a point behind President Barack Obama's margin of victory in those same precincts four years ago.
Some other media outlets were still holding on calling Clinton the winner. NBC at 9:30 p.m. still had Michigan too close to call.
