[Red Steel]

Guess what, Gallup, Rasmussen, and ABC polls had Mitt up by 5 to 6% with a week left then Ms. Krispy Donut showed up.

[Alberta's Child]

See Post #26. Those polls all showed either an even Democrat/Republican turnout or even a slightly higher Republican turnout. The people who run those outfits claimed that all the other pollsters were oversampling Democrats.

Hey, guess what ... it turns out that Gallup and Rasmussen were oversampling Republicans. The final turnout split ended up being something like +6 in favor of the Democrats.

Also, keep in mind that some states had more than 40% of their votes cast during early voting -- and Obama outperformed Romney in most early voting. A lot of those votes were cast long before Halloween.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The optimistic polls were the ones that did not have D+6 (which more honestly should have been put as R-6).