[Politicalkiddo]

It’s obvious. They wanted to make it look like they were winning in an attempt to discourage non-Democrat voters from voting.

[NEMDF]

Personally, whenever I am called for a poll and let the call go any further than hanging up right away, I tend to not tell the full truth. Possibly some of that goes on, on a large scale.

[fortheDeclaration]

We can understand why so many polls were wrong from listening to analyst's trying to rationalize the anti-Obama wave last night!

Polls refused to factor in the intense dislike for Obama and the Democrats.

[KarlInOhio]

Pollsters used to be able to assume that everyone had a (landline) phone, would answer the phone and answer the poll honestly. In the past ten years those assumptions have fallen apart, so to get a statistical sample pollsters make assumptions about the voters so they don't oversample the people who still answer the phone, but they end up with polls that merely match their demographic and political assumptions.

[KC_Conspirator]

In denial.

[jjotto]

Polls are not really news or even information. They’re like celebrities. They are a form of entertainment to entice you to hang around for the message, be it commercial or political. As long as people pay attention, there’s not much point in accuracy.