Was Truman/Dewey the last race this close involving an incumbent
And except for Truman has an incumbent ever not been leading with 3 weeks left and won? What were the Bush I/Clinton numbers 3 weeks out?
Need some positive messages here because I'm nervous about a) Sinclair b) Nuisance ads c) * making black and white answers to complex questions and being hailed by the media as showing greater moral clarity.
not in the least. I have been working and listening to people in my CONSERVATIVE part of NC for quite a while now. The only support idiotboy* has now is his base, period! Do not let the corrupt polls fool you like our corrupt media trys to.
4. In that one, the debate was right before the election, I think
with this, the distance between the debate and the election gives the race a strange dynamic. george has to hope nothing happens in Iraq and he has to pray Sen. Kerry makes a major gaffe.
in 1948. Most (maybe all?) of the major pollsters stopped polling two weeks before the election, because they were under the impression that hardly anyone made up their mind in the last two weeks.
There were also numerous stories of Republicans who were so confident that Dewey would win that they didn't bother to vote. Not sure how much of that is urban legend, however.
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