I predict they won't call a winner tonight. I think it will be dragging on until tomorrow and possibly longer.... depending on what the "powers that be" find to argue about in court.
I would love to see a Romney landslide. And really it wouldn't surprise me if there were. I can also see it being a split with Obama taking the electoral votes and Romney getting the popular vote. I just think that the pollsters this time around really don't know what they are reporting.
My husband and I were talking about this yesterday... I know it has only been 4 years since the last presidential election, but THAT election was very different from previous elections regarding turnout. So the polls going into THIS election are skewed by that probably unrepeatable turnout, AND the change in the way the population responds to pollsters in general. So many people don't even HAVE a landline anymore. And with cellphones, if they get called, many won't answer. Or will hang up on such calls. Or lie about their intentions... to intentionally skew the poll. I just don't think the pre-election polling is nearly as accurate as it might have been in previous elections, so it is impossible to gauge where things might go.
I tend to think that the Democrat supporters do not have the intensity that was present in 2008, so their voting numbers will be down. Which will have a big effect in how accurate the pollsters are... I also think that a lot of the media has not allowed the Benghazi fiasco to get any traction in the news, but that doesn't mean that the public isn't following it or aware.
I would love to have a winner late tonight, and I would love for it to be Romney... but I am not expecting to know until maybe tomorrow.