Well, I don't agree that the polls are off, but I can see how the republicans are using the weaknesses of these polls to try and discredit them. Right now, almost all the polls do not weigh political identification (i.e. democrat, republican, etc.) Instead the polls focus on groups of voters like latino, african american, women, income, etc. and match those findings to the makeup of the states. Now, if the pollsters do their jobs right, political i.d. shouldn't matter which is why I believe these polls are correct. The problem that republicans have is that more people are claiming to be democrats then they used to, so these polls appear to over sample democrats. Most of the polls have samplings of democrats anywhere from 4 to 10 points higher than democrat turnout in 2008. Now, it doesn't seem likely that Obama would get that much support this time around, but that is what the polls are showing.
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