I dunno. I thought Romney was leading in the polls last time and he also had enthusiastic rallies, but then we got snookered.
He was, but I would assume the pollsters are all trying to avoid the mistake they made last time overestimating Romney, and so are using the Obama minority-heavy, youth-heavy turnout model this time. That is human nature on the pollsters’ part. But since Hillary’s not black and both candidates are old, it seems likely turnout will follow a different pattern this year. Trump is obviously hoping for a Brexit twist in the turnout. Hillary is hoping that whether or not women turnout is the same, more of them vote for her than did Obambam.
I think Obama had a pretty good method of getting his base to turnout, and Romney didn't. So, I'm not sure if the polls were really all that wrong, but it was a matter of performance when it counted.
Hard to say if Hillary has the same ability on generating turnout- We know Trump is going to get the turnout.
I had less-than-zero enthusiasm for Willard The Rat Romney.
I have great enthusiasm for Donald The Lion Trump.
I never had to hold my nose so tightly as I did to vote for Romney.
Now the scolds who admonished me to do so refuse to hold their noses to vote for Trump.
Romney had enthusiastic rallies?
(and I actually supported the guy, at the time)
Even I was never enthusiastic about the guy. He inspired nobody.
However I have been 100% for Trump since before he even announced his campaign.
Trump is a completely different animal.
Not me, I was fairly certain Romney was going to lose, most polls had him behind I think, except Gallup, but the consensus was that he was going to lose. Of course here on FR we tended to hang on to this one poll, and perhaps we are doing the same thing this year, but Romney was no Trump, so we are definitely in uncharted waters this election, no one really knows WTH is going to happen.