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If Romney wins, the pollsters will be the losers

If Mitt Romney is declared the president-elect Tuesday night, the nation?s pollsters will have some explaining to do. ?All of the stuff about skewed polls will be put to the test,? says University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin, who conducts the Marquette University Law School poll and is a polling consultant for the political website Talking Points Memo. In spite of national surveys that suggest the race is a dead heat, the consensus among poll analysts is that President Obama is heavily favored to win re-election.