U.S. Election Is Editors' Top Pick for Story of the Year in AP Poll

Who's surprised? Anyone?

Since 1936, the AP has been conducting its annual poll asking editors and news directors their pick for the year’s biggest news story, and had AP asked participants in its 2015 poll to go ahead and predict 2016’s biggest story, the result would probably still have been the the U.S. election.

How could it not be, with all of the investigations and deep reporting eclipsed by even more spectacle and scandal, horserace punditry and obsessive poll analysis that ultimately turned out to be wrong, in the case of the electoral college, at least.

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