Flashback: The Polls in July 2003 (from pollster.com)

[draft_mario_cuomo]

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/flashback_the_polls_in_july_20.php

[jmp]

1. So Edwards ...

Wasn't doing well then either, huh? :P

[Colobo]

2. No frontrunner then. We do have basically 2 now.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

5. Look at where the eventual 2nd place finisher was in the polls at the time

He was essentially within the MoE with the last place candidate. That is an example of how much things can change in 6 months. Also, while there was no front-runner in July of 2003 there clearly was by the winter of 2003: Howard Dean (with Wesley Clark a solid second). He had a healthy lead in all the polls, raised by far the most money, etc. What happened? He finished a distant 3rd in Iowa and was not a contender for the rest of the primaries. A similar fate befell the 2nd place candidate, Clark, although he did win in Oklahoma and remain viable longer than Dean.

[Jack Bone]

3. Joementum!! ROFL!!

I was a Carol Moselely Braun supporter...Wouldn't she have been a great one!!

[IndyOp]

4. Darn! I bet we would've won if Joe Lieberman had been our candidate in 2004 instead

of that Librul John Kerry...

:sarcasm:

(Or to be more clear, I bet the GOP would've have bothered to steal the 2004 election if Joe had been our candidate.)

That is really cool data - Thanks!

[illinoisprogressive]

6. another DLCer in the top spot then, too.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

7. A graph comparing Dean, Kerry, and Edwards in the polls