I smell a poll cat!

Drudge reports (6/25):

GALLUP: MCCAIN, OBAMA TIED

and

LATIMESBLOOMBERG POLL: OBAMA UP 15-POINTS OVER MCCAIN...

There's a little gem of Newsweek's embarrasing polling history buried under the perpetual poll sucker Howard Fineman's latest piece. http://www.newsweek.com/id/143258/output/print

But nothing like in 1984. That was the most embarrassing example of the latter kind of survey. It predates PSR but remains seared into our institutional memory. The day the Democratic convention ended in San Francisco in 1984, the Newsweek poll showed Walter Mondale 18 points ahead of President Ronald Reagan. Mondale ended up getting clobbered, 49 states to one.

Newsweeks' polls are notoriously unreliable and always tilted toward the Democrat. Rasmussen is the way to go.

If you listen to the "talking heads" on MSNBC ........ you will be believing Obama has already won the GE.

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