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To: Bill who wrote (83531)11/3/2004 9:29:38 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793926
 
THE POLLS HELPED ELECT THE PRESIDENT
By Cori Dauber

One note about the election. For the last week the airwaves have been filled with pundits parsing polls in such a way that it was clear they might as well have just gutted the chicken and spilled the entrails out on the desk: they would have had a clearer picture of what was happening. Up 2! Down 3! Up 1! Up 2.5! Down .5! Hut hut hut!

Please.

But what kept getting emphasized from those coversations was that the election was, in reality, essentially a jump ball. Tied. Anyone's ball game.

And the more they kept saying that it was that close, the more their discussions of those polls, despite the fact that they may not have actually told us anything, served to help the President.

Because as mobilized as Democrats were to vote against Bush, Republicans feel positively about the President. And the President's supporters had the same, "this is the most important election of my lifetime" feeling as those voting in the anti-Bush block. I kept hearing that turnout was a purely pro-Kerry phenomenon, but that just made no sense to me. The media had just spent two weeks convincing the President's supporters that every vote counted, this was a jump ball, the most important election of their lifetimes, so on and so forth and so on. All of that worked to mobilize the President's supporters at least as much as any GOP ground game was going to.
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