Historical Perspective – Debra Medina absolutely can get in this run-off!
The latest update by the Medina campaign talked a little about the historical 1978 Clements/Hill campaigns and how it can be encouraging to those of us support Medina. I did a little research and these are some interesting facts I came up with which gives me even more encouragement that we can absolutely get in this run-off.
The documentation below covers interesting points in the general election of 1978. Earlier parts of the document cover the primary race so that is a distinction. However the similarities are the discouraging poll results from news and outside pollsters. And although in-house polls were more encouraging there was never one that showed Bill Clements ahead. The other major similarity is the huge turnout in that election and what that meant.
There had been no Republican governor in 105 years yet Clements squeaked in winning by 1 and 1/2 votes per precinct! Incredible isn’t it? One thing that hit me was the last minute attack on Bill Clements – it reminds me of the Beck-Jones nonsense. I also didn’t realize that some of the newspapers actually declared John Hill (the Democrat) as the winner of the Gubernatorial race in 1978. The polls in this race (according to this documentation) seemed to be all over the place and a Krueger poll had Clements behind at 35% to Hill’s 51% on October 28th, just a few days before the election.
If this isn’t enough to give Medina supporters a shot in the arm I don’t know what is. I couldn’t quit reading about that historical race once I started. The message is – keep on going until that last vote is in and we CAN get Debra in the run-off!
This was taken from http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4435/m1/
The subtitles are mine such as “What the Polls showed and Beyond”.
What the Polls showed and Beyond
Dirty Tricks
“Never a Poll that showed us ahead”
Some NewsPapers declare Hill the Winner
