Dan Senor, actually:
"There is some kind of systemic crisis today in the world of polling, I think particularly on the right-of-center polling. The modeling was way off," Senor said during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "How pollsters on the Republican side, although not just on the Republican side, you saw Gallup make similar mistakes, you saw Rasmussen make similar mistakes. The understanding, the assumptions made about what the electorate looked like was way off."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-adviser-conservative-polling-facing-some-kind-of?ref=fpblg
Here's the systemic issue. Mr Senor thinks Gallup and Rasmussen are not on the right hand side.
Earth calling Planet Romney, come in please.
All folks like Gallup and Ras did was skew the average polls a little further to the right than the reality-based pollsters were seeing.
But take a sensible approach to absorbing all the polls and you still got a result that silver, pollster, wang, alea et al called almost exactly right.
The problem wasn't the polls. It was the Republicans. So used are they to the skewed version of reality called Fox, they didn't remember that reality actually has its own rails.
So - lowering taxes doesn't raise revenues, wealth doesn't trickle down, many of the unemployed wish to work and would rather not depend on others, wealth concentration makes for a brittle economy, charity dries up when the economy tanks, billionaires are not the job creators, the earth is 4 1/2 bn years old, evolution occurs, the globe has been warming etc.
Numbers count. Now where have I heard that issue before?
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