“Pollsters are in the business of being _correct_, and I don’t mean politically. If they say Obama is going to win, you’d best take that at face value and get busy convincing voters to pick Romney, or to stay home if they won’t.”
Then why did Reagan, who was 7 points behind Carter the week before the election, win in a landslide, hmmmm?
Polls are, at best, prescriptive. They are hardly predictive.