[IrishMike]

John Zogby said the race mirrors the 1980 election, when voters didn’t embrace Ronald Reagan over then-President Jimmy Carter until just days before the election.

“The Sunday before the election the dam burst,” Zogby said of the 1980 tilt. “That’s when voters determined they were comfortable with Reagan.”

Now voters are wrestling with two senators with opposite resumes - Obama, at 47, the unknown, and the established 72-year-old McCain.

[housedeep]

i have said all along i think its a late break towards McCain in the last 72 hours of the election

McCain has razor thin victory with 274 electoral votes

[cvq3842]

I was thinking about that too!

[Red Dog #1]

I like to point out that the last time a Democrat ran against an unpopular Republican president who wasn’t on the ballot we got Jimmy Carter. The point usually works well on anyone that lived through the Carter years.

[wagglebee]

John Zogby said the race mirrors the 1980 election, when voters didn’t embrace Ronald Reagan over then-President Jimmy Carter until just days before the election.

Precisely, as my FRiend 8mm can attest, Reagan was LOSING the election through mid-October of 1980, but he ran away with it in the final stretch.