All along, Obama supporters have maintained that when the primaries

[hedgehog]

started, people would pay attention and support would shift to Obama. Obama supporters maintained that the polls through the summer and fall were largley based on name recognition rather than actual support. Why is the concept that polls taken today should be closer to actual results than polls taken 6 months ago be so hard to fathom?

[Cha]

1. What they maintained makes

a lot of sense. Most Americans are too busy trying to keep up to pay attention to the political system like those who hang out here.

[jgraz]

2. Nostradamus they ain't

Every candidate maintained that they would surge ahead of Clinton and start winning once the primaries began. Most of us (i.e. non-Clinton supporters) knew that her support was a mile wide and an inch deep.

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3. Reminds me of June 2003-- Liebermann was the frontrunner

Most of those early polls are just name recognition.