Trump's victory led people to focus on whether Facebook had influenced the electorate, especially with the rise of hyperpartisan sites on the network and many examples of misinformation.
Whether true or not, candidates should never speak ill of the electorate.
The firm also asked the same question of "a representative sample of the American electorate.
The Morning Consult also surveyed a representative sample of the American electorate, asking the same thing.
Nor, until now, have 13 former US secretaries of state and defence risked addressing a letter to a foreign electorate with the same motive.
The forecasts show the extent to which immigration will reshape the US population in the coming decades, even as politicians including Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump use hostility towards foreigners to appeal to significant parts of the electorate.
