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It all seemed so easy at the start. Newt Gingrich called it for Hillary; Chris Matthews for Rudy; Terry McAuliffe said it would all be over by super duper Tuesday. Then we learned about super delegates, who would swing it for Hillary. It was said Obama couldn't win because of the mythical Bradley Effect. Here are the chief campaign canards and their champions.
What if the polls are wrong, as when Harry Truman beat Tom Dewey in 1948? What if they are missing a late surge for McCain, as they famously overestimated support for Tom Bradley in the 1982 Los Angeles mayoral race? Political history is riddled with upsets. Are we about to witness another?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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