To: nathanbedford
If history repeats itself, all of these polls showing McCain with a lead now will, miracle of miracles, come up with a huge Obama rally in their final polls before the election.
And then McCain will win.
I'll never forget (I was young, naive and very disheartened) when the last Gallup poll before the 1980 election showed Jimmy Carter had, at long last, "caught" Ronald Reagan.
And it wasn't even close.
78 posted on
09/14/2008 3:07:36 AM PDT by
daler
To: daler
I have it from a very high source in the organization that in 1948 Gallup actually had the numbers right, they had Truman beating Dewey, but they could not believe their own data and so inverted it. That source says that Gallup never did anything like that again, having learned its lesson.
I did not represent that that is the truth, only that I have truthfully recited it.
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79 posted on
09/14/2008 3:20:50 AM PDT by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: daler
‘ll never forget (I was young, naive and very disheartened) when the last Gallup poll before the 1980 election showed Jimmy Carter had, at long last, “caught” Ronald Reagan.
And it wasn’t even close.
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Remember what he said there, because this one isn’t going to be close either.
Let’s also not forget how the MEDIA tried to give Kerry the election in 2004 by saying the exit polls showed a KERRY LANDSLIDE.
109 posted on
09/14/2008 10:48:06 AM PDT by
word_warrior_bob
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