2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNew Ras poll (according to Talking Point Memo's Poll Watcher) FWIW:
Romney: 47%
Obama: 43%
What's his drug of choice over there? Must be some good stuff.
I went to the Rasmussen site to try to find a link but can't find one for this particular poll (for 8/8/12). It just showed up on my iPhone notifications. As with any poll from Ras, I wouldn't put much stock in it but just thought I'd pass it along in case the Republicans and corporate media start bringing it up throughout the day.
Marzupialis
(398 posts)I am looking forward to Rasmussen keeping this up. When the actual election results turn out to be vastly different, his Republican clown status will be solidified, having screwed up the 2010 Congressional elections by having a Republican biased and by being inaccurate. Let him pretend Romney is ahead by 4%. We won't hear from him in 2016 if that's the case.
brush
(53,771 posts)Who are they trying to kid with this crap? Even for Rasmussen these numbers are crazy with the horrible week/month Romney has had and is having. Their credibility was already shakey. Now you have to think just the opposite of what they put out.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)a lot more "ominous"-polls will be skewed to cause "sheeple" to follow the percieved crowd following/supporting Romney--It's all a game.
Far too many people that don't keep themselves informed just "go w/the MSM flow" because they are still so uninformed they still have trust in the "news"...
The "drug of choice" is likely Cash Money.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Take that rightwing shit off there
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)It showed up on Talking Point Memo's Poll Watcher app. They post all new polls as they come in from multiple sources (including, unfortunately, Ras)
cleduc
(653 posts)The GOP pollsters (and it's not just Rasmussen - for example: FOX, Purple Strategies, We Ask America, etc) have to keep it close. Otherwise, the money dries up. Using multiple GOP biased pollsters is important because the different pollsters each get to put their finger on the scale to offset the unbiased results in polls-of-polls and keep it close.
MidwestTransplant
(8,015 posts)Marzupialis
(398 posts)Rasmussen likes to "neutralize" realistic polls by coming up with ones that reveal contrary results.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)they like "going rogue"!
Arkana
(24,347 posts)He uses likely voter modules from 2010 (when basically only the angry white people of this country voted) and then throws in a few more percent Republicans.
Jackass.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)My vague recollection from '08 is that they pushed McCain hard, spitting out outlier results all summer long, then spent most of October pulling back to reality so that they could be commended for their dead-on prediction on October 31, 2008.
What would be much more interesting to me would be to discover that they didn't adjust to reality in October, 2004, but instead continued producing outlier polls that, surprise!, turned out to be the "actual" results. I would be interested, but not surprised at all.
Canadian 2
(20 posts)Didn't their last poll before Election Day have McCain beating Obama by 4 points? Correct mee if I'm wrong.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)52-46 for Obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/latest-presidential-polls_n_140177.html
But that is because in the final weeks Ras revises his forumla so that he can claim he was accurate despite being inaccurate for months prior to that so that they could give the GOP positive talking points.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)then he repositions himself to make it look like his results were always in line.