Ah, those mythical “internal polls” that perdicted Juan McCain’s victory in 2008.
“Ah, those mythical “internal polls” that perdicted Juan McCain’s victory in 2008.”
Until the scare tactics of the financial markets manipulation delivered the election to Obama a month or two before the election, McCain/Palin had it in the bag. Once people felt sufficiently threatened, and McCain couldn’t articulate a plan for anything other than “business as usual”, he was sunk. Up until that point, any Obama supporters I knew assumed Obama would lose (and it was close enough to indicate that was the truth).
04/16/2012
Understanding the Romney policy leak
Yesterday evening NBC’s Garrett Haake had a nice scoop, revealing some policy proposal details that Mitt Romney discussed at a closed-door fundraiser. Most notably: plans to streamline the federal government, possibly eliminating some agencies — and, perhaps, shutting down the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which Romney’s father once headed.
No internal polls here. I challenge you to look at the absentee #s, where Rs are dramatically doing better than 08. For ex, in Franklin Co, which Zero won by 21 points, the Rs have a 5,500 advantage and it’s grown week by week. These are public statistics and don’t require any mysterious formulas.
Sorry but I never heard the McCain campaign in 2008 talking about internal polls showing them winning... In fact I remember McCain himself saying that their polls are showing them 4 to 6 points behind...