Posted on 06/25/2008 7:01:10 PM PDT by maccaca
There's a little gem of Newsweek's embarrasing polling history buried under the perpetual poll sucker Howard Fineman's latest piece. http://www.newsweek.com/id/143258/output/print
But nothing like in 1984. That was the most embarrassing example of the latter kind of survey. It predates PSR but remains seared into our institutional memory. The day the Democratic convention ended in San Francisco in 1984, the Newsweek poll showed Walter Mondale 18 points ahead of President Ronald Reagan. Mondale ended up getting clobbered, 49 states to one.
This is pretty good, can somebody dig out this poll? I'd love to see.
He will win if all those dead folks who are registered show up to vote.
Not to mention the outcries of “racism” and “Bradley effect.”
Threats of riots in the streets . . . “burn baby burn”
McLiberal is Mondale. He’s not the great one.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Gallup June 1992 General Election
Ross Perot 34%
George Bush 32%
Bill Clinton 24%
I found a NYT article, dated Sept. 17, 1984 discussing a Gallup poll done for Newsweek. According to the article the poll, released the Saturday before the article was published, showed Reagan with an 18 point lead over Mondale.
Here’s the link:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DA1038F934A2575AC0A962948260
FTA: "Mondale ended up getting clobbered, 49 states to one."
Sad to say, in the 2008 replay John McCain plays the part of Walter Mondale and barely carries his own home state.
...haha exactly what I was thinking
I plan on accompanying my nephew around the neighborhood and wearing an OBama mask.
If I don’t see enough candy, I’ll just blurt out “What are you, racist?? Fork over the sweets...whitey!”
Just be careful you don’t purchase a surplus OJ mask!
bttt
Dead on !
I can see a scenario where Osama wins the popular vote while McPain ekes out the electoral victory. Let's say that things pretty much work out to the same red-blue state split we've seen in the last 2 elections. The only difference being that there is off-the-charts black turnout in the south. Now, while this huge black turnout in the South drives up Osama's popular vote total higher than Gore/Kerry, it does not yield him a single electoral vote. While the margins of victory for McCain in the southern states is less than what would normally be expected from a GOP candidate, he still WINS all those states.
Now, if this does indeed happen, can you imagine the hue and cry from the msm and the black population? How many cities will burn?
I gree with your assessment. I can’t remenber when a Republican was ever the front runner in an election.
As a young boy I do rmember the 1972 election and the
excitement over McGovern. The biggest shock to me was Carol O’Connor, Archie Bunker, endorsing McGovern for president.
The smothers Brothers mocked Nixon, the pop culture
hted him and on it went.
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Funny how the MSM throws a party to announce polls showing Obama up 15 or 12 points, gleefully reporting and plastering it all over the place on the web, but they’re so silent when more reliable polls like Gallup and Rasmussen show the race virtually tied. Why do we go through this every election? Oh wait....
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