Amazing: One outlier poll and every doomsayer crawls out of their hole.

[Liberal Veteran]

To revel in it.

Sad, isn't it?

[mac56]

1. Doomed. We're all doomed.

:eyes:

[LuminousX]

2. some people always looking to nail the coffin closed

The news of Kerry's demise is greatly exaggerated.

[lancdem]

3. I hope it is an outlier

[Tim_in_HK]

4. I know

People really got a get a grip or it's going to be an even longer two months.

[arbusto_baboso]

5. Polls are as accurate at judging the way votes will go, as Wall Street is

an accurate measure of the shape of the economy. Which is to say: Almost no relation to reality at all.

[merbex]

6. The news cycle today will push that poll far far away

Everyone needs to calm down

[Walt Starr]

7. I swear, it's one of two possibilites

Either they've never been through a presidential campaign before, or they are interlopers intent on sewing discord!

[quaoar]

8. I don't accept the premise of these polls

As to who is and is not a likely voter.

This election is far more about turnout than it is about persuading those few undecideds out there.

That's why the RNC was so heavily into stroking their base. They know that turnout is the key.

[LowerManhattanite]

9. Not to mention the trolls who've lurked for months...

...and show up only to defend (the wonderful swift boat debunking from two weeks ago—thank you Walt Starr!) and offend (today's wacky Time poll).

This board is gonna be a mess the night Kerry wins the election...but in the words of Sheila E, "such a pretty mess“!

[sangh0]

10. And always the same "progressives"

predicting disaster

[catbert836]

11. I hope its an outlier

But if its not, what do we do? give up? NO!! We work harder to make sure it dosen't last! I wonder if any doomsayers really hope that Kerry will win.
Once the debates come, Kerry will trounce Bush among those who still have yet to make up their minds, because Kerry's always been a champion debater and Bush can't talk. Although the repubs are trying to get 2 debates instead of one...

[quaoar]

12. If it isn't

It puts Bush in the role of frontrunner -- a position that long-distance runners know is precarious.

It's hard to see how Bush could improve much on this poll. That means he has nowhere to go but down. A dropoff from his bounce swings momentum our way.

[David__77]

13. Indeed. SO WHAT about this poll?

Some had Kerry up by 7 or 9 and we see on with Bush up by 11. There is indeed fluctuation in polls and between various polls. We need a mass mobilization more than anything. Get your friends and acquaintences to vote. The polls pointed to a Bush win in 2000, and look, he lost the vote by 500,000 votes.