RCP’s final numbers in 2004 were Bush 50%, Kerry 48.5%. And of the 85 national polls in RCP’s composite taken during the last two months of the 2004 election, Kerry only led in 7.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry.html
Not the polls in the last week of the election, in fact several networks were told privately that Kerry was a lock to win and they made preperations to report the fact.
I’d always heard they were good.