Rasmussen tries to Cover His Hiney

[VirginiaTarheel]

Scott Rasmussen said this this morning:

All signs point to a close race with just over a week to go. In fact, current polling suggests it might be close enough to produce a split decision, with Mitt Romney winning the popular vote and the president keeping his job with a victory in the Electoral College.

Most national polls show Romney with a very slight lead of around 2 percentage points.

[fugop]

1. Don't you love how he phrases this crap?

Mitt "wins" but Obama just "keeps his job."

I know that's semantics, but seriously, it feels like he's downplaying how Obama might just hold on through that stupid Electoral College victory. Not a real win, like Mitt with the popular kids ... I mean, popular vote.

I love looking at Rasmussen's swing state map, too. You look at the top line Electoral Vote numbers and Obama's only ahead by 2. But then you look at the states Ras has as tossups and almost every one of them has Obama in the lead. He's already assigned Florida and NC to Romney. But his tossups are states like Nevada, Iowa and Wisconsin, as well as Ohio and New Hampshire. The only state he seems to have left as a swing that seems to lean Romney is Colorado.

Boy, talk about desperate.

[Cosmocat]

3. ALL analysts, media people do this

except for strident democrats and liberals.

Most know flat well they are being snarky republican shills, some simply do not have the self awareness to know they have been bitch whipped by the republicans.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Setting us Up for the State Legislature Option

If Mitwit wins the popular vote but would lose the EC, repig state legislatures will try to flip their states red by legislation, as Florida's legislature was threatening to do in 2000.

[Lasher]

2. No surprise here.

He will tell the truth when he releases his last poll before the election.

[PsychProfessor]

5. Finally, a reason to be grateful for 2000?

If as a nation we had not lived through the election of 2000, how might we react to a split decision? I was up in arms that Al Gore did not fight tooth and nail about the situation in 2000. I was outraged that the winner of the popular vote was denied the presidency. But democrats lived with the laws of the land and GWB became our president. As awful as all that was and still is, it does set a precedent that, yes, we live in this country with these laws and the winner of the electoral college is the winner of the election. I don't care if Romney wins the popular vote due to landslides in the reddest of the red states. I would actually not even care if those states decided to leave the union and have Mitt Romney as their president. How they would survive without the states that provide them with so much federal money is of course anyone's guess. But if President Obama wins the EV, they can all go f*ck themselves. Suck it up. God knows we did in 2000.