What a great way to illustrate that you don't understand 'statistics'! You have obviously never heard of 'standard of deviation'....
When pollsters say "92%" and especially "At this point, even a large polling miss would not be enough for Mr. Trump to win — it will take a sudden and striking change in the fundamentals of the presidential race", and then Trump blows her out by a lopsided margin like 306-232 - it's actual proof that they didn't know wtf they were talking about. They didn't get bit by the randomness bug, they were just wrong.
This isn't a case where they said 'this had a chance to go either way'. This is a case where they're saying, "we checked into it - we know exactly what's going to happen in this specific instance" and they had it upside-down. They yapped like liberals (= they looked like total fools).
For your edification:
1) people don't have "a 1% chance of ever being in a car accident in their lifetime". It's actually much higher than that. It's almost an eventuality.
2) This isn't really about true randomness, and you can't judge it as if it was just a binary option. Being close counts in this type of measurement. It's like "There's a 92% chance your child will be 4'9" tall" and they wind up being 7' tall. They weren't just wrong, they were clueless. They were so far outside of the SDev that their prediction was useless. If the kid was 4'8 or 4'10 you'd give them a pass but they failed, utterly. You'd never tell a family member to go ask for their opinion again.