A Look at 2004 Three Weeks Out

Jim Geraghty of National Review Online writes the TKS column, which was formerly named The Kerry Spot during the 2004 election. Jim decided to take a look back at the 2004 polls three weeks before the election:

For giggles, I looked through the TKS archives, to the same time period, two years back.

At this time in 2004:
Newsweek was telling us that Kerry was leading among men.

Mickey Kaus was reminding us that
Flail Watch: When Bush and his adviser Karl Rove take the unusual step of making themselves accessible to reporters, it's a sign of "anxiety" and "jitters." But when Kerry adviser Bob Shrum takes the unusual step of making himself accessible to reporters, it's a sign of confidence—a "victory lap"! ... Those two things could both be true, of course. But you'd want more evidence than the LAT's forced quote from Newt Gingrich that"

If you don't have some anxiety you are not in touch with reality."

[But the Times also had a "senior Republican strategist not affiliated with the campaign" saying he thinks "the Bush camp might be nervous"!-ed Well there you go! Case closed!]

We were being told that Bush had a lead in New Jersey.

And the Bush campaign had admitted, “the debates energized the Democratic base and closed the race to dead even.”

Good to see the state of the polls and mainstream media campaign coverage have gotten a lot better in the past two years, huh?

Interesting, and sounds very familiar.