"MONDALE LEAD OVER NEAREST RIVAL IN POLL SETS NONINCUMBENT RECORD"
NYT front page story, February 28th, 1984
"Hart leads Mondale 38-31"
CBS NYT Poll, March 5th -8th 1984
I have been following politics for over 25 years. In that time I have been consistently amazed at how few people actually understand how the nomination process works. What this diary is going to demonstrate is that National Polls are mostly meaningless. It's going to do this by reviewing the last 30 years of primary history.
And at the end of this diary you should ask why people get paid to write detailed analysis of meaningless national polls
