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montana500 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-06-06 01:15 PM
Response to Reply #6
11. It works the opposite
The "air of inevitability" is something strategists desperately try to avoid when the losing side is theirs.

Posting polls with wide leads would only hurt the party that is behind in the polls - just like calling Florida for Bush before the polls closed hurt Gore.
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