[goldstategop]

D+ advantage in this poll is D+7.

No one really believes this is 2008. Obama could win if he got that kind of excitement and enthusiasm but it simply wasn’t in evidence in the closing days of this campaign.

It is not 2008 and these pollsters have lost all credibility!

[BushMeister]

I've felt for a while that D +2 was the worst we'd see this year. Maybe Rasmussen got higher values for the party ID figures earlier in October, and has them narrowing recently, and that's why he is going with D +3 or whatever he's using, despite that amazing R +5.8.

As for IBD/TIPP, this is disheartening because they were apparently the closest pollsters for the national vote in 2004 and 2008. Still, D+7 is a big spread for 2012, and Romney is only down 1.6%.