Nate Silver, The Geeky God Of Polls

With all the often wildly-conflicting polls, the one site I kept drifting back to was stats geek Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight. History will be very kind to Silver's predictive prowess. His final call of 349 electoral votes for Obama is dead-on for the current results, although Obama's total may increase slightly as the couple of still deadlocked states are finally decided.