So, I know we're all sick of it and some probably don't want to talk about it anymore - that's cool. Just want to share an article I found on how it all shook out for pollsters and prognosticators. I know a lot of prediction is a game played by partisan players who want to energize their base all while accusing their counterparts of the same thing. You never know who's wishful thinking until it's all over.
Listening to conservative talk radio really gave me an appreciation for how heavily they rely on things like 'internals' and 'externals' of polls. They were mentioned a lot in the run-up to the race.
What struck me was the news sources that used the widest range of polls from the most varying pollsters did the best and the news groups that used less sources did less well and in some cases were totally wrong.
Here's one article from the Atlanticwire
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/11/grading-pundit-predictions/58768/ and then two regarding Dick Morris, Fox's go-to Pollster in chief.
The before take from Foxnews
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/11/01/dick-morris-romney-will-win-landslideAnd the Mea culpa from Dick's own website:
http://www.dickmorris.com/why-i-was-wrong/#more-10133Like I say, everyone's probably sick of it all, but if the disparity in the polls bugged you like it did me - how could they be so wrong? Then you might find all this interesting.