[Irene Adler]

"As others have posted, the polls in '04 gave a considerable edge to Kerry and we know how that turned out."

I don't believe this is correct.

[Reaganez]

many papers have said many pollsters gave a private presentation to the network news divisions the night before the election in 04. They all predicted a significant Kerry win.

PM Blair got a briefing from his intelligence services and Tony went to bed considering how his relationship with a Kerry Administration would work.

The exit polls said the same thing.

Bob Shrum asked Kerry if he could be the first person to call him Mr. President around noon eastern time the day of the election.

Those stories are in more than one paper.

[Darkwolf377]

I don't believe this is correct.

You're right. I checked a bunch of polls the other night, and Bush lead all of those I checked in the final month of the 2004 election.

[grey_whiskers]

Try using the Free Republic Search function with 2004polls as the keyword.

Cheers!