You know one sure way to know you are losing election? Your side sits around complaining about polls. Right now that is legion on our side.
Sorry, but the polls are right. The country HAS become more Democratic - partially due to the fact that Americans tend to LIKE Obama and feel comfortable affiliating themselves with his party. This is a serious problem for us, but just because they loosely identify themselves as Democrats doesn’t mean they will pull the lever for Obama and Democratic candidates. But make no mistake, it makes winning elections more difficult.
Sorry Longbow but you know nothing about how polling works yet you continually lecture those of us who DO understand polling.
Stop clinging to your opinion and listen.
Polling can be skewed like any other statistical measurement. If you poll 35 Democrats 35 Republicans and 30 Independents you will get one result. IF you poll 40 Democrats, 25 Republicans and 35 Independents you get a much different result.
That is how you get polls like this one that shows Obama ahead by 5, and polls like Rassussen that show Romney up 4 on the same day.
Right now, the party identification is showing either a 2 to 3 point Democrat edge, or a slight edge for Rs in self identification. So their is NO rational way to justify over sampling Democrats 11 points, as this poll does, UNLESS you want to generate a certain outcome.
So instead of clinging to your ignorance try actually LEARNING something about polling from those of us who understand it.