Just a few thousand votes the other way would have made the polls totally wrong.
A large number of independents (it was said) did not even decide on who to vote for until a couple of days before the election, and most broke for the Democrats.
When the GOP wins lets see how accurate the polls are on that one.
"Just a few thousand votes the other way would have made the polls totally wrong".
Geeee, no kidding (rolling eyes). But that MAKES MY POINT, THEY WERE ACCURATE. You can't "BUT IF" it.
You could make that same comment about Pres Bush's election in 2000 (in Florida or a few other states). You could make that same comment about the President's election in 2004 (in Ohio and a few other states). You could say that about ANY election. You could make sports analogies like that (if it wasn't for that home run in the 9th, if it wasn't for that touchdown before halftime, etc). No offense, but that is a stupid comment--nothing personal. "What if's" do NOT refute that FACT that they were accurate.
You also said,
"When the GOP wins lets see how accurate the polls are on that one".
Guess what, we already have. The same RCP poll aggregation was incredibly accurate in 2004 too!! The final RCP collective poll results showed President Bush with a margin of just over a 1% the NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTON. THAT IS EXACTLY what he won by!! EXACTLY the margin. Please look it up.
That poll 'trashing' here is just ridiculous. I just get sick and tired of every poll posted here on FR getting totally trashed--just because Freepers don't happen to like what that poll says. Biases or not (and yes, there are biases--the ONLY poll withOUT a bias is the actual election), polling has gotten incredibly more accurate in the last decade--and as a politician (or even a pundit like we are on here) they are to be ignored, tossed aside, or dismissed 'at your peril'.