And Just Like That, the Red Wave is Back On

It’s been just three weeks since I reminded readers how the push-polls designed to try to influence voter attitudes suddenly start to shift into real poll mode about 6-8 weeks before Election Day in every election cycle. Here’s what I wrote on September 28:

Look, this is like clockwork, folks. It happens every election cycle. All the push pollsters fake up Democrat-leaning polls early in the cycle, and then, with about 50 days or so to go before Election Day, the polls suddenly start changing to try to reflect what the actual outcomes might be so that they can later claim to have been “right.”

There will be a Red Wave in November. It won’t be as overwhelming as 2010, but it will be big enough to get the job done.

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That was written in reference to a slow shifting in the Generic Ballot polls that had taken place over the two previous weeks, a shift that had seen a previous small Democrat edge in that measure evaporate.