"Don't forget that the media and the pollsters trumped Dukakis as the presumed winner right up until he got slaughtered"
On the election night in 1988, I was driving home and listening to NPR (since they had the most comprehensive election coverage). The lead NPR announcer (Cokie Roberts, IIRC) was dramatically stating how the election was surprisingly close and will be undecided until late into the evening. When I got home and turned on the TV, I was relieved to hear that the national TV networks had all but called the election for Bush.
I kept monitoring NPR to see how long they would continue their ruse of a close election. They kept it up until after the polls closed on the West Coast when they changed their tune and suggested that the election had turned in Bush's favor. It was much later before they finally admitted that Dukakis got his @ss kicked.
Going to The BUSH RALLY here tomorrow. Cheney is coming to town on Aug 2, I can assure you majority of Texans want Bush voted in November.
GO W.. GO bring on the family.... Bush Family over Kerry Family can not blind the country.
They must have sinced changed there tune. One of my friends listens to NPR (he finds them funny in there delusions). They claim now that it was only a few percent (something like 4% or 5%) that seperated 41 and Dukakis, and that just a few more points, and he would have won.
I asked my buddy about Mondale, he claims NPR still believes that Mondale lost because Reagan outspent him and fooled the voters, also that Jimmy Carter lost because he had a primary and presidents that have primaries always lose.