But, seriously, what was all that stuff about on here from basically everybody that ALL polls are wrong and in the tank, no Democrat could get past 50%, McCain would win most undecideds? To believe that ALL polls were so far off, ALL OF THEM, even the Republican ones (who have no pro-Obama agenda) required its own “special sauce” washed down with heavy Kool-Aid.
It’s called, “wishful thinking.”
Obviously that was wrong. The suspicion that a good many of these polls were crap and biased was right.
Tell me how a Pew poll has Obama up 15 two weeks in a row and then, for their last poll, they say “just kidding, his lead is really only 6, not 15”. Now they brag how accurate they were. Rasmussen didn’t play those kind of games.
A lot of folks around here were in some dream land where it was forgotten that Obama hung a big millstone name Bush around McCain's neck. You would be hard pressed to find a better pair to run against (and win) than John McCain and George Bush. If not for Sarah Palin, the outcome would have been a total "no brainer" for anyone with their feet in reality - not a pleasant reality, but one nonetheless.
The sad thing is “what might have been.” If Lehman Brothers hadn’t gone bankrupt and Bush’s call for a bailout hadn’t happened, McCain-Palin would have won.
McCain was up 5 points until that hit.