The polls are skewed. Let's unskew them.
Where and when have I heard THAT before. Oh yeah - 2012. 2008. 2004. 2000.
Your comment made me reflect upon my own observations about polls during the last election. Analyzing polling data is something I know a thing about, having written a thesis on the subject in my graduate days. Most recently, in 2012, I noted on numerous occasions as to how many "prestige" polling organizations appeared to be underestimating Republican voters in their samples, often using somewhere between 27% and 30% as a target (after normative adjustments).
My thought at the time was that they were under-counting GOP voters by five percent or so, based upon historical Presidential electoral trends, and thus giving Obama a seeming and I thought, undeserved advantage.
It turned out that they were right, and I was wrong. Why? Because Republican "likely" voters had in fact shrunken as a group, in part having shed their numbers to the Independent category, and also because a decreasing number of registered GOP voters were actually "likely" to turn out on election day - a trend that seems to have begun in 2004, and has continued to this day, as far as I can tell.
Democrats, on the other hand, benefited from having a candidate that uniquely generated instantaneous and almost unanimous support from a core Democrat constituency - blacks, of course. But they also effectively leveraged superior enrollment and ground-level organization efforts to get their voters to the polls, including social media targeting, phone banks, enrollment drives, door-to-door canvassing, bus and car rides, and inducements of various kinds, including cash and other... "things" that have appeared in anecdotal accounts, but which I happen to believe. Cheap wine is still wine, after all. Was there cheating involved? Certainly. You can't get 104% turnout in certain precincts any other way.
But the harsh reality remains for Republicans: they are a minority party, and their dependable voters - including many nominal independents - are shrinking in number.
While it may still be true that Success has a thousand fathers and Failure is an orphan, the baby still got there somehow, and it is incumbent upon whoever may be said to compose today's Republican leadership to take responsibility for it.
