George,

Given how miserably wrong the polls were, isn’t it at least possible that Hillary was ahead before Iowa, lost most of that support to the Obama bounce, but was never really behind.

Statements about how Hillary reversed the loss in the last week rely on our belief that she was really behind at that time. Why should we be confident that this is true? Why should we accept it as true when the same people who were so wrong, call this a significant comeback? Couldn’t just as likely be a nearly averted defeat?

The spin makes me weary.

Rus Perry (Electronic mail, January 12, 2008)