What the pollsters don’t understand is what is not political. Americans, have had a thumb stuck in their eye repeatedly. Beating up Republicans is one thing, but when school kids are complaining about their lunches because of his bitch old lady he’s pissed just about everyone off.
What really sunk him however may have been more subtle. He screwed everyone with medical deductibles.
I essentially said this elsewhere here. “Republicans did not get a ‘wave’ of support; they were the beneficiaries of a ‘tsunami’ of disgust for Obama.”