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Kerry's gonna lose in November for sure, if this is any indication. Pray harder, Smash, 'cuz it ain't gonna happen. Oh, that's right, you don't have anyone to pray to. I guess that puts you up **** Creek without a paddle-- because that's the only way your candidate are going to win...
Me thinks the lady doeth protest too much...
Anyway, I didn't really bother to look at Smash's link too closely but, yeah, about what Vic said. If half your polled people are in Texas and the other half in Mass. and you get about a 50/50 split, does that prove anything? The only real important states that even sort of matter for polling are the swing states.
Someone on the radio (that's all the cite I've got on this.. heh) was talking about the election and, despite his own pro-Bush stance, said what he thought was the truth based off the collected polling data: part of the reason we weren't seeing any real fluctuations or "bumps" was because most of the nation has already decided. For that matter, most of the urban swing vote is already decided. The only real undecided voters are the swing rural votes which is why you see both Kerry and Bush campaigning so hard in those areas -- last election this was a vote that Bush only claimed 6% of and Bush was going to have to seriously work to claim those votes (and the election) this year. Anyway, I don't have any of the numbers to back up what he was saying but it was interesting to listen to.