The pre-election polls, and espescially fivethirtyeight.com were right after all

11/06/2008
fivethirtyeight.com's poll of the polls pre-election prediction followed by the actual results (perfectly correct except Indiana went Obama too):


also worth considering: these relatively lily white states that went Obama as well - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington State.