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The Horribly Skewed Internal Polling That Made Mitt Romney Think He Would Win

• Business Insider
  The New Republic's Noam Schieber details this morning why Romney's team thought that: They had a set of very off-the-mark swing state internal polls that lined up to a Romney victory.

The two particularly brutal examples are from Colorado and New Hampshire, where Romney's internal polling gave him at least a 3-point lead in each state. He lost each state by at least 5 points.

In New Hampshire, the Romney internal polls' two-day average put him up 3.5 points on Obama. He lost the state in a blowout:
 
 

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