Remember Where Dean Stood In The Polls This Time of Day On This Day 4 Years Ago?

[ThomWV]

Top of the polls, could not be beat.

That was then, this is now.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Kerry was polling about 4% IIRC..

I think even Sharpton was polling above him. I have to admit I wasn't ever really even considering Kerry until after Iowa and then I started to take a look at him. I still ultimately voted for Edwards, and Clark was a close second, with Kerry a very close third. Times change don't they?

[Schema Thing]

2. So how did Kerry do so well in IA?

[book_worm]

6. check the historical record

the media pile up on Dean began before Iowa and in the weeks just before the caucus both Kerry and Edwards were surging and Dean was falling. The Des Moines Register poll called it accurately Kerry, Edwards and Dean.

[Jack Bone]

7. I posted this yesterday...it's a great article!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2575380&mesg_id=2575380

if ya've got some extra time to read it...click the link the US News & World Reports story.

enjoy:hi:

[karynnj]

10. Here are the Iowa polls

Kerry was steadily moving upward. He also was re-united with Rassmann, the man he saved in Vietnam, a few days before the caucus. He already was ahead of Dean before that event, that was about as positive as you can get. He did it by working to exhaustion, staying to answer every question - face to face with Iowans. Face to face, he is both impressive and charming.

[ThomWV]

9. Isn't that something?

I was pretty much in the same boat. I was all ready to go for Clark and then came Iowa and Kerry came into focus. By the time our Primary came around it was alread a done deal but I think I still might have voted for Edwards. I do know Clark was my guy but Elizabeth Edwards came here and spoke and really did sway both me and my wife. It just broke our hearts a couple of months later when the cancer was found.

[demnan]

3. I know

I was pulling for Dean and it was like, "what the hell happened?"

[book_worm]

4. Nope, he was already slipping.

The same poll that has Obama ahead in Iowa today had Kerry ahead with Edwards second and Dean a close third. Also the Des Moines Register poll called it correctly in Iowa before the caucus: Kerry, Edwards, Dean.

[suston96]

5. Are you talking about Iowa caucus day?

[NoPasaran]

8. Dean had been slipping for a few days

But we Deaniacs were telling ourselves that the polls were missing the hordes of voters who were going to flood the caucus.