Maybe, but it happened right before the election. I observed noticeable shift in attitude. That's not good evidence, I know, but Clinton's polls which had been steady, took a 3% dip at the time and stayed down through election day.
People talked about the polls being off compared to the election, but the election matched the post-Comey polls pretty well. It's only the polls that mixed pre-Comey data that were too high for Clinton.
Either the axioms of science are correct, or reality isn't empirically testable. In the latter case, believing in the the truth won't get you any farther than a false belief in science.
If Homo Sapiens don't always suffer consistent illusions that leaves open the possibility they sometimes perceive reality more or less correctly.
Also, if there were no possibility of some "veridical perception" there would be no way to gather evidence that some perception is illusory. That's a good place to look. Demonstrations of consistent illusion must include some new mode of perception that reason dictates is closer to reality.
"And even so, we do have empirical evidence that homo sapiens"
You're trying to have it both ways by equating "homo sapiens [at times] don't suffer consistent illusions", which is obviously true since we don't all have the same experiences, and "homo sapiens [never suffer] consistent illusions" which is equally obviously false because of the evidence you alluded to in the second part.
Buddha: Why are you all shaved?