2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Here is my theory about Rove's peculiar "Ohio Moment" on Faux [View all]pointsoflight
(1,372 posts)If anything, the polls underestimated Obama's support across the country. OH was the only heavily polled state that went in the opposite direction. Obama's internal numbers were similar to the public polls, too. Then you have Romney's internal numbers, which were heavily skewed in other states to the tune of something like 6 percentage points, and even their numbers had Romney down by 5 in OH.
No way was Obama only at +2 .
Were votes flipped? I don't know. I agree that Rove acted very suspicious. But I also think it's possible they were expecting to shave several points off of Obama's totals using standard suppression methods--cutting early voting, forcing long lines, forcing tons of provisionals, etc.
Whatever the case, this shit needs to get fixed. I hope Obama is serious about pursuing this and pursues it hard. We need to get election policies out of the hands of local, partisan officials and need much stronger national standards. This crap should not happen in the U.S.