By PoliPundit ~ December 10th, 2002 @ 11:38 am
Remember when I said that bad polls before the elections had cost the GOP a Senate seat? GOP pollsters went back to South Dakota after the election and turned up some interesting numbers:
Then the pollsters asked: “If you had known that because of what happened in other states that the Democrats would lose control of the Senate and Tom Daschle would no longer be majority leader, would you have still voted for Tim Johnson, or would you have voted for John Thune?”The results are another indication of just how close the election was. Ninety-five percent of those surveyed said they still would have voted for Johnson. But five percent said they would have voted for Thune had they known Daschle would no longer be Majority Leader. That would be well over 1,500 voters — more than enough to make Thune the winner on Election Day.
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