NEWSMAX: …Newhouse and his colleagues said their largest flaw was a failure to predict the demographic composition of the electorate, particularly the Latino vote in Colorado and Florida.
And Romney’s polls convinced him he had at least 267 out of the 270 electoral votes needed to win, and four states — Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada — would determine the outcome…
He says one theory for why the polls were so off is that in the final days before the election, “only the most loyal partisans were picking up their phones when pollsters called—everyone else seemed to have had enough.’’ … (more)
