Will you miss the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Election Polls forum?

[Mr. Morden]

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This sub-forum will now be defunct, and it's kind of sad.

Anyone have any good 2008 primary season election polling memories to share?

[Sensei]

I want to get a poll done by ARG one day.

[Lief 🗽]

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This sub-forum will now be defunct, and it's kind of sad.

Anyone have any good 2008 primary season election polling memories to share?

Well, every single ARG poll. Also those couple weeks between Iowa and California when we thought that Zogby had stopped sucking.

[Alcon]

I want to run through wildflowers in soft-focus with Dick Bennett

[they don't love you like i love you]

I actually missed the 2006 Congressional Elections Polls forum quite a bit. Mostly because that had so much variety.

[Meeker]

I feel like part of me has died. So many memories

[Mr. Morden]

Memories....here is a hilarious Datamar poll of California, with Romney leading by double digits:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=58577.0

Some great Winfield comments in that thread.

Some of my favorite moments of discussion had to do with Giuliani tanking in all the early states, and all the back and forth about whether he could possibly come back after losing all of the first five contests.  Here's some good discussion about that:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=65327

Giuliani's done

Except about 5 seconds after this primary concludes the primaries for real states will be taking place, and no one is really going to care about what happened in 3 states with a combines EV total of 19.

Verily on the other hand had a clearer crystal ball.....though he *still* overestimated Giuliani (as did the rest of us; this was before it was clear that Giuliani would completely pull out of IA/NH/NV/MI/SC, and end up getting 4th place or worse in all of them):

Giuliani will not be the Republican nominee. He'll come in a distant third behind Romney and Huckabee in Iowa, probably second to Romney in New Hampshire, and at this rate will come in fourth to Romney, Thompson and Huckabee in South Carolina (well, maybe ahead of Thompson, whose voters will switch mostly to Huckabee after Iowa).

[Verily]

Yeah, that was before McCain's resurgence in New Hampshire. What everyone really missed was that most of Giuliani's supporters had McCain as a second preference (or even first preference in the cases where people simply thought McCain was out of it). So, when Giuliani began his epic collapse in the early states, McCain mopped up all of his support while Romney stayed static.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Yeah, that was before McCain's resurgence in New Hampshire. What everyone really missed was that most of Giuliani's supporters had McCain as a second preference (or even first preference in the cases where people simply thought McCain was out of it). So, when Giuliani began his epic collapse in the early states, McCain mopped up all of his support while Romney stayed static.

This is very true. Most of McCain's supporters were in Giuliani's camp in late 2007, myself included.

[Mr. Morden]

Remembering the Huckaboom:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=65590

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=66019

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=66054

good God. Huckabee is going to sweep everything before FLorida.

My embarrassing posting of an internet poll from Alaska:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=66254

[Mr. Morden]

Some really incredible numbers on the black vote in South Carolina:

Also, Edwards gets no love from blacks in SC:

Incredible in the sense that this poll is from *November*.  Note the epic collapse in black support for Clinton over the following two months.

[Hash]

Yes definitely. Was my favourite board. Memories, memories.

[Eraserhead]

Some really incredible numbers on the black vote in South Carolina:

Also, Edwards gets no love from blacks in SC:

Incredible in the sense that this poll is from *November*.  Note the epic collapse in black support for Clinton over the following two months.

Her white support took a nosedive as well, with Edwards scooping up most of it.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Nah, the real action was in the main '08 subforum.