What did polls say prior to the race?
Apparently aware of his problems with voters, Bevin had remarked in February, "There has never been a poll ever taken since I’ve been a candidate or since I’ve been governor ... that has ever found me above water on anything or likely to win anything, ever. ... Polls, shmolls."
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