NYTimes -- Bush's Push, Volunteers and Big Turnout Led to Georgia Sweep

Georgia was the biggest shocker. The story mentions Democratic problems, the teachers not supporting the Governor, environmentalist anger, black anger; but the real story is the details of the Republican last 72-hour push to get their voters out.

A Republican National Committee study of the 1998 and 2000 elections showed that Democrats consistently outperformed the polls by four percentage points or more, thanks to huge vote-pulling operations in the last three days. In response, Republicans drafted a "72-Hour Plan" of their own, tested it in 50 locations during last year's governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia and rolled it out in Georgia and 30 other states earlier this year.

I was right to add 3-4 percentage points to Democratic poll results based on 1998 and 2000, based on 2002 that might not apply anymore.