Brace yourselves, now it begins: US News / Rasmussen pave the way for another election STEAL
They do this with a purposely vague question asking voters to predict which party the "next" President will belong to.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/clark-judge/2012/09/04/why-the-obama-romney-race-may-not-be-the-dead-heat-polls-describe
As the Republican convention closed on Thursday night, a new poll pointed to the potential for a major surprise when Americans go to the voting booths in November.
Pollsters will tell you that they cannot always count on voters to level with them about which candidates they favor. For example, Gov. Scott Walker's victory in the Wisconsin recall election several months ago was predicted by the polls, but his margin was not. It was a larger margin than the surveys had forecast. Similarly in 2004, Sen. John Kerry went to bed on election night believing he would be the next president. He woke to a surprise, as did Democrats in 1994 and, to a lesser degree, in 1980. Note, in all these elections it was the Democratic who got the unwelcome surprise.
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n any event, whatever the cause of the gap, pollsters have asked, is there a question that gets around the candor deficits? And some believe they have an answer. People may not tell you their candidate preference directly. But in close races where there is no credible consensus about the likely outcome, they typically believe that their candidate will win. In other words, ask them which side is likely to prevail in the next election and their answer will tell you their real opinion.
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In a poll released on Friday, Rasmussen Reports found that "60 percent of likely U.S. voters believe the next president will be a Republican." Only a quarter thought it would be a Democrat.
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The Rasmussen team was quick to point out that they did not specify whether the "next president" would be elected in 2012 or 2016.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/a-breakdwon-of-the-most-recent-romney-versus-obama-polls
Rasmussen uses a sample that has “baseline targets” of 35.8% Republicans, 33.0% Democrats, and 31.2% “unaffiliated” voters, despite other surveys that show Democrats' actually outnumbering Republicans in the general population.
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PLEASE NOTE: The Rasmussen team deliberately structured the poll to go either way. If they succeed in stealing the election, they can point to these results. If they don't succeed, they can rationalize it by saying that the 60% figure included both people who thought a Republican would be elected in 2012, and those who were thinking about 2016 -- since the question was vague.
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ttp://www.gallup.com/poll/156914/americans-predict-obama-win-2012-election.aspx
This is typical Rasmussen BS.
