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Another poll found that Obama would win even if Gov. Sarah Palin was on top of
the Republican ticket. And another showed that Obama would defeat Palin if he
ran against her as governor of Alaska.
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"We don't believe any of these polls," said an aide for John McCain. "We
took one among our staff, for instance, and McCain won by ninety percent."
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"Our polls," said a popular pollster, "are not based on which candidate we
would like to see win. We poll people from all over, even homeless people and
those strange fellows in cities who have sputum drooling in strands from the
sides of their mouths."
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A Presidential-election expert said that the Obama popularity in the polls
could hurt him. "If everyone thinks he is a shoe-in," said Ronnie Raybold, a
pollster in Maryland who lives in Virginia and vacations in Florida, "a lot
of people who were going to vote for him might not go because they feel he
will win based on these poll numbers. Like me, for instance. I am just
staying in that day."
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"This happened a long time ago," said a McCain aide, "before an election and
the guy who was way down in the polls won. I don't recall exactly which
candidate it was but it happened and everyone was surprised. Some people
said they would never trust a poll again. This could be one of those times."
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"We are still campaigning hard," said an Obama aide. "because, basically, we
have a pool as to just how high Obama will go in any one poll."
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