Why were the national polls wrong?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

It's because pollsters like Gallup and Rasmussen were taking polls that were probably initially accurate, since you're just taking a cross section of the electorate, and then adjusting them to who they perceived would turn up to vote in November.  It's a method that laughs in the face of both math and rationality and I'm glad they got some serious egg on their face.

It's even better that the Romney internals basically did the same thing. 

(It's also hilarious that they only called landlines)