“The Pollster’s [sic] blew it last couple of elections...”
Wrong. Rasmussen called the 2004 election as Bush 50.2%, Kerry 48.5%. The actual result was Bush 50.7%, Kerry 48.3%. Pretty darn good. He also called the winner in all 24 states he polled in 2006 correctly.
I remember the flurry of articles after the elections in which the pollsters took a hit from the media for their blatant errors.
Rasmussen got it right!, good for Rasmussen, but the others were severly beaten up by the media for a number of days afterwards. The media jumped on the pollsters like sharks on bloody Mackeral.