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I don't agree with you on anything but this I agree with. With 2012, they said it was known that Romney would likely lose for weeks but the media needs the ratings so they will keep this a horse race to the end.
I don't agree with you on anything but this I agree with. With 2012, they said it was known that Romney would likely lose for weeks but the media needs the ratings so they will keep this a horse race to the end.
The polls in 2012 pretty much all showed a small, but constant lead for Obama. However, you had articles like this complaing about the polls, hell there was even an unskewed polls website to change the results of polls.
Too funny- I saw him out to eat a couple of weeks ago in SC. He is a bit of a political opportunist who worked for Carter eons ago but basically makes bank being the disaffected Democrat. I used to know a quasi niece of his and he is basically a political gadfly/rabble-rouser instead of a true consultant.
FWIW- in both 2004 (the exit polls) and 2012 (polls leading up to the election) the problem wasn't so much the polling as the pollsters inability to adjust their sample size to the actual demographics. The problem they had in 2012 was that Romney won a percentage of the white vote that would have carried any other election but that election also saw much higher minority voting totals. And the Romney collapse among Asians and Latinos really didn't seem to be noticed since pollsters misestimated their likelihood to vote. That's why their is always a gap between registered voters and likely voters. Dems do better among registered voters but R voters are more likely to make it to the voting booth. SO over time pollsters have tried to accommodate that.
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