Is nearly a mirror-perfect flip of what's being said today.
To wit, this liberal blogger sounds very, very much like many conservatives today:
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In which he analyzes all the reasons why Kerry was going to win, whatever the polls said. Oct 20, 2004. He gives a rather well-documented case for a Kerry victory, which if you changed the names would fit neatly into today.
Here's a little bit of it, but you need to read the whole thing.
Additionally, Media Matters and Salon were both attempting to make hay about polls oversampling Republicans:
Media relying on flawed polls: Gallup and CBS/NYT skewed toward Republicans | Research | Media Matters for America
Deep breathing over Gallup - Salon.com
Now, does this mean the election will go the same, and the challenger will lose? No. It's not a perfect match, and many other things about the election are different, not least being the difference between the incumbent in 2004 having just gained in the previous midterm, vs. the incumbent in 2012 having suffered an historic "shellacking." The state of the nation, the economy, and many other things are entirely different.
But it's interesting nonetheless to see the sharp,
near-perfect reversal of rhetoric.