2000 Election: What Did the Final Battleground State Polls Show? [View All]

[liberalpragmatist]

This year, the battleground state polls as a whole were pretty accurate. Whatever you think the outcome of Ohio is (I tend to think Bush won narrowly but that were were some irregularities) there really weren't any big surprises this year. Nevada, New Mexico and Iowa had been leaning narrowly Bush in most polls, Minnesota and Wisconsin had been barely leaning Kerry, Michigan and Pennsylvania narrowly leaning Kerry, NH narrowly leaning Kerry. The two states that seemed to be unable to poll were Ohio and Florida - some polls had Kerry ahead, some Bush.

In other words, this year, there were few surprises. Most of the EV predictions came pretty close with Ohio and Florida being the variables.

In 2000, how did the final results square with the pre-election polls? Was Gore leading in Missouri, Tennessee, NH, W.Va., or Arkansas (which he lost narrowly)? Was he behind in states that he won like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico, and Iowa? What did the Florida polls show?

Does somebody have a link to battleground state polls in 2000?