https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/12/why-we-got-the-election-wrong/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 02:10:28 -0400<![CDATA[Our final daily presidential tracking poll showed Romney at 49% and Obama at 48%. Instead, the president got 50% of the vote and Romney 48%. We were disappointed that our final results were not as close to the final result as they had been in preceding elections. There was a similar pattern in the state polls. For example, in Ohio we projected a tie at 49% but the president reached 50% of the vote and the challenger got just 48%. Although every individual result in the battleground states was within the margin of error, the numbers we projected were consistently a bit more favorable for Romney than the actual results.]]>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:20:55 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/12/why-we-got-the-election-wrong-n97397