Battleground state polls from this date in 2004

[Hamlette]

For anyone who is nervous:
1. Be nervous. Get to the polls, keep working hard, donate what you can afford.
2. These polls will help you get a good nights sleep.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_sbys.html

[cosmicone]

1. wow ....

what a difference 4 years make!

[WeDidIt]

2. WOW. amazingly accurate!

The averages were incredibly accurate back then.

[Dawgs]

3. Those polls are interesting, because most of them show how each state finished.

For example,

Ohio finished +2 for Bush, and this poll showed Bush up by 2.1 (difference of 0.1).
Minnesota finished +3 for Kerry, and this poll showed Kerry up by 3.2 (difference of 0.2).
New Mexico finished +1.4 for Bush, and this poll showed Bush up by 1.0 (difference of 0.4).
Michigan finished +3 for Kerry, and this poll showed Kerry up by 3.5 (difference of 0.5).
Iowa finished +1 for Bush, and this poll showed Bush up by 0.3 (difference of 0.7).
PA finished +2 for Kerry, and this poll showed Kerry up by 0.9 (difference of 1.1).

Wisconsin finished +1 for Kerry, and this poll showed Bush up by 0.9 (difference of 1.9).

Missouri finished +7 for Bush, and this poll showed Bush up by 4.2 (difference of 2.8).
Nevada finished +6.3 for Bush, and this poll showed Bush up by 3.0 (difference of 3.3).
Florida finished +5 for Bush, and this poll showed Bush up by 0.6 (difference of 4.4).

Each and every poll on your list, except Wisconsin, picked the correct winner.

[Hamlette]

4. was that on the link or did you go dig all that up?

great stuff if you did! Thanks. (When I saw RCP average down to 6.2 today I had a reoccurrence of my democratic PTSD. I am so shell shocked after 2000 and 2004 when I thought for sure we'd win.