Rassmussen Poll: Bush49 JFK46

[righteous1]

The latest Rassmussen Poll has Bush up by 3. Typical end of the week surge that we have come to expect from RAS

[maddezmom]

1. link?

:)

[righteous1]

3. Rasmussen

www.rasmussenreports.com

[maddezmom]

5. thanks, maybe you can edit your OP to include

:)

[puddycat]

2. I don't understand these National polls. They really don't matter.

Only the individual swing state polls are pertinent, and they are so close. I just don't understand why they even have national polling.

[chimpy the poopthrower]

4. Rasmussen is right-wing garbage

Their polls are way off from anyone else's and they link to far RW sites.

[demokatgurrl]

6. Why are these numbers the EXACT OPPOSITE

of another poll posted farther down on this page??????
I am absolutely convinced the polls are completely unreliable.

[Teaser]

7. Why should they be the same.

random processes, people. random processes.

[Mountainman]

11. The randomness of them should make them similar

If two polls were taken of the same population, at the same time and both were truly random, meaning every member of the population had the same chance of being selected, the polls should have similar results within the margins of error. If the polls were truly random, what is true of the sample is true of the population, within the margin of error. This would be true for any number of random selections of the same population at the same point in time.

My guess is that the polls are not truly random selections.

[nolabels]

14. There was a few posts yesterday that stated that these were............

going to be the results of this polling group. Also said it was using old data etc. The polling crap seems about as accurate as a points spread bet in sports as of late. I don't believe any of it any closer than a by five or ten points. Who would have believed the Red Sox's pulling out a four game streak to knock the Yankee's out anyway?

I would predict we see a lot of strange things go on in the last few days, just because of what happened prior in elections and putting bushco in the mix that can't be stated enough.

The whore media and these polling groups have already been outed for their B.S. anyway. Looking at them too closely if you don't know all the specifics on how they were done just seems like foolishness to me

[aquart]

8. John Kerry does not use his middle initial. Why do you?

The last JFK was assassinated. Are you trying to attrack someone who wants to be part of a streak?

[righteous1]

10. initials

Of course not, those are great initials for 2 great men

[Sideways]

9. There Is A Good Thread In GD2004 About Freepers Posting Lousy Polls

Just food for thought. Not that I'm saying.......

[righteous1]

12. lousy poll

This isn't really a lousy poll, shows it's close...Zogby has Bush up by 2....Forget about the ABC/Wash Post at Bush +6

[Robroy]

13. What were Rassmussen's numbers

right before the 2000 election?

[righteous1]

15. 2000

I am not sure, wasn't as good as Zogby though. The best was Opinion Dynamics, they had it called dead on @ B48 G48

[mapatriot]

17. Opinion Dynamics

Not so sure. Opinion Dynamics is Fox News polling agency and I don't trust ANYTHING associated with those treacherous bastards.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi mapatriot!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[chimpy the poopthrower]

16. I'll say it again: RAS IS RIGHT-WING GARBAGE!

They are giving Bush 222 right now, Kerry 190, and 126 toss-up. That's ridiculous. Compare it to Electoral-Vote.com, for instance. They're giving states to Bush much more readily than to Kerry. The states that are leaning Kerry get listed as "toss-up" while states with even a slight Bush lean go to Bush.

Besides that, they have linked to sites like NEWSMAX in the past. I mean, come on...

[jackson]

18. What about the Democracy Corps polls that show Kerry ahead?

From: http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/
Date: October 19, 2004
To: Friends of Democracy Corps
From: Stan Greenberg, James Carville
RE:KERRY SMALL LEAD CREATES BIG OPPORTUNITIES
Report on the State of the Race After the Presidential Debates
The close of the debates has moved John Kerry into a small lead in the
latest Democracy Corps polls, 50 to 47 percent, which puts him in a
strong position to win on November 2nd. The race is still close and
the Democrats still need to win the final battle over mobilization,
but they go into this phase with many advantages over the Republicans.
Indeed, the race has consolidated after the debates in many ways that
make it harder for Bush to catch Kerry in the sprint to the end.

[AIJ Alom]

19. Translation: Kerry is up by 5%.

Rassmussen leans Republican. You need to correct for the error.

[durablend]

21. Have they ever had *'s JA # below 51?

Everyone else is trending mid 40s for *, yet Rasmussen continually shills the number up if it looks like it's starting to drop.