The NY Times is currently predicting the following. http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president
I think they were planning to steal it with software on strategically placed voting machines. The polls provide cover for the steal. Maybe there was too much heat. So it failed.
In France, sarkozy wanted to introduce wide voting machines. French people nearly took to the streets against it. And he is the only one-term president in modern French history, as he got defeated. Elections are too important to have voting machines: get to push back for the simple paper ballot, the counting with ALL contenting political parties present who have to sign and agree to the hand counting results.