Thursday, November 8, 2012

Great moments in polling and punditry: 2012 election edition

U.S. President Barack Obama, who won a second term in office by defeating Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, waves as he addresses supporters during his election night victory rally in Chicago, November 7, 2012.    REUTERS/Jim Bourg (UNITED STAT Barack Obama. Still the president, despite the analysis of many pundits and pollsters

As those last handful of votes (well, a few million votes, probably) are being tallied, the outcome in virtually every race in the 2012 election is now known. In particular, we now know that President Barack Obama has been reelected, most likely with 332 electoral votes, and has become the first Democratic president since FDR to be elected to two terms with a majority of the vote in both of his victories.

Which means that today would be an excellent time to revisit some of the "greatest" moments in polling analysis in this cycle.

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