We never believe polls unless they benefit us. Again because we never believed the polls that Obama was winning the election, I stand by election day results. Those are the ones that matter. I always see people get so dramatic over polls...for example people were swearing that NY-23 was ours because a poll here and there said he was ahead but the results on election day did not show that. Either we disregard all polls or we believe all of them.
“people were swearing that NY-23 was ours”
It probably was. It was certainly well within the margin of people that voted for the pullout.
Polls produce the result their sponsors are paying for but as election day approaches, most politicial pollsters will start factoring reality into their polling—so that they can claim credibility later.
The Boston Globe doesn’t care about credibility—it gave that license up LONG ago. They probably polled their own newsroom and came up with the Dem winning big.