Final week in 2000 Bush lead in 39 of the 43 polls taken

[59millionmorons]

So that means 39 pollsters were WRONG.

"During the final week of the 2000 campaign, 43 national polls were released, including multiple releases by several polling organizations such as Gallup. George Bush led in 39 polls, Al Gore in 2. Bush's average lead in the polls was 3.6 percent."

http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/

[Jackinbox]

1. Good find!

I was wondering where I could find poll results from the end of the 2000 race.

You confirmed my suspicions. Bush was ahead in nearly every poll, and by much larger margins than in the polls that have him ahead today.

[newyawker99]

2. Hi Jackinbox!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[nolabels]

3. Welcome Jackinbox

If you haven't noticed lots of people here are cynics and with good reason. Even just the simple statement that, poor people don't conduct polls, rich people do and they often exclude the poor should give one pause to what them polls are really all about.

I have been hanging here for while and never would have believed all the lies that have been exposed and that the corporate media avoids like the plague. I myself am kind of doubting that bush was ever ahead that much, if at all, in the first place. But we knew the polls would have to come closer to reality close at the end. They had to, it's the only way they could save what little credibility they had left.

The only poll that matters is on election day though, so be prepared