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To: Diogenesis
The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts in some polls, days prior to Election 2008.

That, as I have repeatedly demonstrated, is simply not true. And it's clear you understand that, because you have never in your postings EVER provided a link to ANY poll taken within 50 days of the election showing McCain/Palin up by 10 points.

RCP has virtually all the respectable polling data here General Election 2008.

The last poll that has McCain in the lead is the GWU/Battleground poll, taken September 21-25, 39 days before the election, and that was a 2% lead (less than your "4-10", so it doesn't count). F&M had a poll ending 9/21 with a 2% McCain lead as well.

You have to go back to almost 60 days before the election to find any other polls with a McCain lead. Two polls on 9/11 at +4, and a USA Today on 9/7 with a +10 (That was immediately following the GOP convention).

But the +10 was an outlier, the average through that period never got better than 2.9%, and that was all convention bounce; Obama was back in front by a week after the convention, and it had nothing to do with Mitt Romney.

213 posted on 04/13/2012 1:18:54 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I remember very well all the fantasizing here about the "PUMAs" and the "Bradley Effect" and how McQueeg was gonna whup Obama.

Polls:1, Delusional Freepers:0.

228 posted on 04/13/2012 1:23:51 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (Oh, no!! Uzbeks have drunk my battery fluid!)
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