With last-minute polls calling for an extremely close election, readers of JBHE bested the pollsters showing a high degree of confidence in the reelection of the President. In last week’s readers’ poll, 89 percent of responders said that on the morning after the election we would know that Obama had won the election. Just 2 percent predicted a Romney victory and 9 percent said we would not know who had won yet.
The Reelection of Barack Obama: JBHE Readers Got It Right
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