Shlishi: They were skewered. The fact that they ended up having the right numbers doesn’t change the wrong fundamentals behind the polling. Democratic turnout was WAY down. 10 million less Democrats showed up last night. All in all, the turnout up last night wasn’t D+11, D+7 or any of the nonsense that they’ve been claiming all along. The difference between GOP to Dems was a million or so votes, spread out between a bunch of swing states.
Though, I will admit to being wrong about the Republicans. Enthusiasm was shown to be much higher than in 2008, so I assumed that would translate to more votes. I also assumed that the 2010 elections proved that the GOP had a bigger voter base than before. I was flat out wrong. As of now, Romney has received 2 million votes LESS than McCain!
PS. I did the math: 2008 Obama would have crushed 2012 Obama 53.6-46.4. Not what I expected from Romney, but I did expect better than the dismal results.