It's a good thing to take the polls with a grain of salt, but foolish to disregard them altogether because they aren't telling you what you want to hear. You're fond of bring up Gore and Bush, knowing that in reality the polls were well within the margin of error even though Gore was called and not Bush.
You're also fond of bring up the 1948 election where Eisenhower defeated Dewey, despite most of the press calling it for Dewey before the election, and the Chicago Tribune calling for Dewey even after the election. All true, no one would take that away from you.
However, like Gore v. Bush, it was a close race. Eisenhower beat Dewey by less than 5% of the vote. In hunter's case, you're asking everyone to believe that the polls are off by greater than 40%. Show me any American election where the polls were so gravely in error. Don't waste too much time though, it doesn't exist.