Looking back over the polls from 2000 I'm a bit surprised at how optimistic I was back then of a Gore win. I certainly didn't follow any of this stuff nearly as much as I do now. Hell, I bet I didn't even know who Charles Krauthammer or Laura Ingraham were then. Naive youth. But, I was pretty convinced in 2000 that if Gore won Florida he would win. Sadly, my big prediction turned out to be false, but it nonetheless embodied a greater truth.
Still the polls back then, especially the big name polls, were all going pretty hard against Gore throughout October. I'm not sure why I was so optimistic then, but I was. But, if I had any rational reason to be optimistic then I clearly have it now.
