In 1988 Dukakis was 18 points ahead before decided to test drive a tank.
How about posting the numbers for 1992 and 1996?
Two things happen in this early polling:
1. clowns who are high or watching Oprah on election day are polled, but won’t vote.
2. people wallow in populist rhetoric, think they are giving GOP authority figures a spanking, believe the grass is always greener in the lawn you haven’t planted— and love to tell phone pollsters that they are going to vote Democrat, FOR THE PEOPLE!
When the chips are down, only a few things really motivate people to vote.
As Hunter S. Thompson said regarding the youth vote not coming out for Kerry: “Yeah, we rocked the vote all right. Those little bastards betrayed us again.”