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1984 Newsweek Poll: Walter Mondale beating Ronald Reagan by 18 points
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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.
This is pretty good, can somebody dig out this poll? I'd love to see.