Jesus I almost choked when I saw this article. I've been memeing this in my own head for a couple weeks almost down to the letter. In my daydreams, I organize a live open poll of exactly 50,000 people, 1,000 from each state. It's not so massive for Trump but it is different from the media polls.
You're right though, that sample is deeply flawed, it should be weighted by electoral votes. The randomness i got, you simply get a bressers book or something similar and just flat call random people by a simple formula,
The key, I thought, was to do it quick, and live. Have like a hundred bitter bernie babies show up with laptops, give them each a cheap headset, and have them all livestream their calls on upstream and youtube. They call each random person and ask
1. You gonna vote/are e? If so,
1 Trump, Hillary or other for President
2. Who did you vote for in the primaries
Won't get a hit every time, but can get lots of hits, and by law of large enough number you can get a pretty clear picture of the electorate. Also, it can be sold to the Bern Bro operatives as revenge for the dnc holocaust, and sold to the public as independent polling since the callers are not from either campaign.
The key is live. Get them in there live, on a weekend, preferably soon, before the football starts, and have them burn through 10 hours a day for Saturday and Sunday. Blow up the streams on social media and try to make them trend.
Pay the Bern Bros with pizza lunch and keep them all in the same room to peer pressure them into staying, and they each work until 250 responses for the day. At the end, add up the numbers and cap off the stream with analysis, striking while the iron is hot and hopefully getting one of the networks to report on it.