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1984 Newsweek Poll: Walter Mondale beating Ronald Reagan by 18 points
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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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; electionpresident; mondale; newbie; newsweek; polls; propagandawingofdnc; reagan
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To: Always Right

He will win if all those dead folks who are registered show up to vote.


21 posted on 06/25/2008 7:29:40 PM PDT by a real Sheila (Just say NObama!)
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To: Steely Tom

Not to mention the outcries of “racism” and “Bradley effect.”

Threats of riots in the streets . . . “burn baby burn”


22 posted on 06/25/2008 7:33:28 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: maccaca

McLiberal is Mondale. He’s not the great one.


23 posted on 06/25/2008 7:37:31 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (No mas Juan "Traitor Rat" McAmnesty)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

Exactly what I was thinking.


24 posted on 06/25/2008 7:40:33 PM PDT by RWB Patriot
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To: maccaca

Gallup June 1992 General Election

Ross Perot 34%
George Bush 32%
Bill Clinton 24%


25 posted on 06/25/2008 7:43:59 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: maccaca

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


26 posted on 06/25/2008 7:45:19 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
John McCain is NO Ronald Reagan. Not even close.

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.

27 posted on 06/25/2008 7:59:19 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: maccaca
We have to wait until after Halloween until the polls really tell us anything. I'm afraid Barry masks will outnumber McCain masks this year


28 posted on 06/25/2008 8:02:07 PM PDT by OCC
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To: rlmorel

...haha exactly what I was thinking


29 posted on 06/25/2008 8:04:37 PM PDT by Grandsons of Liberty (Revolutionaries for the 21st Century)
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To: OCC

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!”


30 posted on 06/25/2008 8:05:44 PM PDT by max americana
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To: max americana

Just be careful you don’t purchase a surplus OJ mask!


31 posted on 06/25/2008 8:10:32 PM PDT by OCC
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To: maccaca

bttt


32 posted on 06/25/2008 8:12:42 PM PDT by GOPJ (ii)
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To: Steely Tom

Dead on !


33 posted on 06/25/2008 9:16:33 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops .)
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To: Always Right
I don’t expect McCain in a landslide, but there is no way Obama is going to win some of the states they are projecting him to.

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?

34 posted on 06/25/2008 9:40:02 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Welcome back to the GOP "glory" days of Gerald Ford and Bob Michel)
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To: Steely Tom

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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35 posted on 06/26/2008 12:42:41 AM PDT by ChiMark
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To: maccaca

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....


36 posted on 06/26/2008 9:28:24 AM PDT by Proudcongal
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