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Reminder/Flashback:Flashback: Gallup Had Carter Up 4 Points Over Ronald Reagan in September 1980
The Gateway Pundit ^ | Sept 8, 2012 | Jim Hoff

Posted on 09/22/2012 8:27:10 PM PDT by Innovative

Back in 1980 Gallup had Jimmy Carter up over Ronald Reagan by 4 points in mid to late September... And, Carter was up 8 points in October. In fact there was a published Gallup poll showing Carter up six among likely voters in a poll conducted Oct. 24 to 27.

Ronald Reagan ended up winning by 9 points and taking 44 states.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carter; elections; obama; reagan; romney
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To: Innovative

Where are all those people who oppose Obamacare?


21 posted on 09/22/2012 11:32:13 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: Ingtar

Not according to Gallup.

McCain was never ahead of Obama in the national tracking polls.


22 posted on 09/23/2012 12:54:35 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Innovative

They are not conservatives. Check e signup dates. The commies are here.


23 posted on 09/23/2012 12:57:58 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Innovative

The media purpose is to 1) discourage Romney voters with poor poll numbers, and 2) encourage Obama voters with good poll numbers. Conservative jounalists need to STOP wasting valuable ink talking about poll numbers and START talking about the issues. And conservatives in general need to ignore the polls.

BTW-If Carter was 4 points over Reagan at this time, one has to wonder where Romney is with being tied in the polls.


24 posted on 09/23/2012 2:57:47 AM PDT by HarleyD
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Of course I agree you can’t compare Romney with Reagen and there have been demographic shifts as others have pointed out. However, I think the main thing to take away from looking back at the Carter vs Reagan polls is that the polls can never be trusted. I believe most polls are understating support for Romney by 3-5%.


25 posted on 09/23/2012 4:07:34 AM PDT by Laura722
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To: fkabuckeyesrule

Rendezvous


26 posted on 09/23/2012 4:29:37 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Innovative
Gallup's poll yesterday was 47-47 and Rasmussen was 46-46 yesterday. Historically, the "undecideds" have tended to break for the challenger. (Morris says "all" but I'd be more conservative.) Romney is no Reagan, but Zero is is worse shape than Bush was in 2004, and that one was a 2% election. As it stands now, it looks like the mirror image of 2004 to me. As challengers go, I think of Romney, not as another Reagan, but as a John Kerry who doesn't look and sound like a complete doofus.

I think that a lot of potential Romney voters haven't heard Romney except for selected, brief sound bites, and if the Obama campaign and MSM is to be believed, Romney has hooves and a pointed tail. At the debates, many will see that he doesn't for the first time. How has Zero performed in debates in the past? Without a teleprompter? My impression is that he's said some pretty dumb stuff when he's unscripted.

The Obama campaign should be in full-fledged panic mode right now. If they don't seem to be, it's because Democrats can lie much more effectively than Republicans can lie, and because they have a lot of help from the MSM.

27 posted on 09/23/2012 4:34:10 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Innovative

If 2010 was any kind of indication, Romney will win, not in a landslide, but by as much as Zero did during the advent of the latest Dark Ages.


28 posted on 09/23/2012 4:48:43 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Innovative

True that the MSM is trying to discourage the center and right for voting for Romney. If you look at the most recent polls, it is not working.

Given all the comparisons to previous election polls like here in 1980. I wonder how accurate these polls were? Did they poll adults or registered voters and did they over sample dems? If someone like Rasmussen was polling back then, what would the polls be like?


29 posted on 09/23/2012 5:10:32 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Innovative

True that the MSM is trying to discourage the center and right for voting for Romney. If you look at the most recent polls, it is not working.

Given all the comparisons to previous election polls like here in 1980. I wonder how accurate these polls were? Did they poll adults or registered voters and did they over sample dems? If someone like Rasmussen was polling back then, what would the polls be like?


30 posted on 09/23/2012 5:10:32 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I was looking at the RCP averages. Gallup was near the bottom in accuracy and has been for a long while.


31 posted on 09/23/2012 10:38:19 AM PDT by Ingtar (Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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