Quote Originally Posted by Iris lily View Post
As far a "lies" in conjunction with polls: when polls deliver the same results as the elections, let me know. Then I won't bother to watch election returns, we will already know.
The poll aggregators (prognosticators in another thread) used the polls and predicted the presidential election dead on. In fact, Sam Wang not only got the presidential race exactly right state by state, he called 10 out of 10 close senate races correctly, including North Dakota and Montana, which Nate Silver got wrong. Nate added weighting and layers to his models. Wang used only the polls. When take together, the polls were dead on, with an error rate of less than 1%.

I knew exactly who was going to win election day. I merely tuned in to see who was most right and to (yes, I will confess) gloat.

But everyone else on the media right, your Goldberg friend aside perhaps, was certain of a Romney win. All you have to do to know the right wing spin machine's position is to read Alan's posts, which regurgitated the nonsense of polls being weighted "Dems +10".

Edited to add...
But to be fair, it wasn't just the right who was wrong. Seems most of the mainstream media were bad predictors, with most of them calling it a razor thin tossup. It was close, but it was never a tossup.