stevestory
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| Quote | Polls Show Obama Lead Growing
Day to Day, October 1, 2008 · Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has gained a 7-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the wake of their first presidential debate, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center. |
Sounds great, right? Well, a friend just decided to give me acid reflux by emailing me this, from Oct 5, 2000:
| Quote | Tracking poll: Gore may be opening solid lead -- with a caveat
By CNN Polling Director Keating Holland
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thursday's CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll indicates that Vice President Al Gore may be opening a solid lead over Texas Gov. George W. Bush, after nearly two weeks of neck-and-neck competition. Today's figures -- 51 percent for Gore to 40 percent for Bush -- represents a significant margin for the vice president. |
http://archives.cnn.com/2000....ex.html
So now I'm all dyspeptic. That's disturbing to read. There's four reasons to not get too depressed about that though. One, Obama's state-by-state numbers look better than Gore's did. Obama's got a good chance in a number of states Gore didn't, like NC and Colorado. Two, Gore did in the end have more votes than Bush, and if they'd been distributed a little differently he would have won. Three, the incumbent party looks much worse at the moment than the Clinton administration did. Four, Bush was more likeable at the time than McCain is now, and the press really stomped on Gore in Oct 2000 for his sighing and pedantic tone in the debates.
Still, I profess to being a little uncomfortable to read that history.
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