You see... THIS isn't unskewing. Unskewing was based on two core pieces of GOP delusion
a) that the 2008 electorate was a fluke, therefore, any Demographic advantage was wrong ("2008 was D+7... this poll is D+5, that can't be!!")
b) not understanding either the changes to party ID since 2008 and that Independents are increasingly not about moderate/centrist views, but rejection/protest.
The 2012 undervalued Obama by about 8-10% with Latino voters and that undervalued him in both national and state polls by 2-4%.
Yes. Personally as annoying as people who jump on every poll to 'unskew', the same people who point and laugh whenever
anyone unskews
any poll, ever, are even more annoying. As if all polls are always correct.
The fact is, if the electorate is projected to be, say, 70% white, and a poll uses a sample based on 74% white voters, then yes, you are going to get a skewed result, particularly biased towards Republicans in that case. It's not hard to understand. I've seen a few polls so far this cycle that used erroneous demographic samples like this.
Some pollsters have this funny idea that because Obama isn't on the ticket, the composition of the electorate is going to immediately revert back to 2004. So far, much of the election / census data since 2008 suggests otherwise, and convincingly at that.
