And anyone who knew Dukakis and Flyover country, as I did having been raised in the latter and then moving to Massachusetts for college in 1979, knew it was very likely Dukakis was going to lose.

Oh, wow, here's a Wikipedia article worth looking at, "Historical polling for U.S. Presidential elections": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_polling_for_U.S._Pr...