Reply #9: the PA polls were NOT "deadly accurate" ...

[Cosmocat]

and the noise from the MSM made PA appear a lot more in play than it was ... The horse race factor and the giving the GOP hope factor were in play ...

Going into the election the RCP average of polls was BO 51.0 and McCain 43.7 ... Again, even at that, it was not close, but all we heard all election season was how BO had problems with Pa voters ....

The final tally ... BO 54.7 and McCain 44.3 ...

Yes, the polls called the win, but the polls were not deadly accurate ...

The same lack of accuracy has existed in the other two big state wide races the last four years ... The polls showed Rendell and Casey winning, but they undershot both the overall vote percentage for the dem both times and the overall margin ... There WERE a lot more accurate on the R vote percentage ...

No doubt, the Ds are going to lose seats here, going to happen ... But, even based on past elections they seem a lot more in tune with the Rs than the Ds ...