[Jeff Chandler]

1980 Poll Numbers
October/November

Reagan Carter Anderson
40% 44% 9%
39% 45% 9%
47% 44% 8%
Actual Result
51% 41% 7%
Difference between actual result and final poll
+4% -3% -1%

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Thanks for posting. I was thinking about it yesterday, as I rode the highways and byways of Florida. Remembering how Reagan was behind and then, THE LANDSLIDE!

I see it happening now!

[Sooth2222]

"In a Gallup poll on October 26th in 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it Jimmy Carter 47, Ronald Reagan 39."

And THAT happened long before everyone and his grandmother went wireless. Gallup has apparently concluded that it's impossible to do accurate election polling now using 1936 methods and gave up on polling presidential elections.