Rasmussen's Polls are becoming very suspicious.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

Thus far, his poll is the only one that is showing declines for Dems in approval, and gains for Reps. Can anybody explain why his are the only ones showing this behavior? Please, any serious answers would help, and I am thoroughly confused.

His latest shows the dems trailing within the MOE, on a Generic head-to-head congress poll.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_ballot/generic_congressional_ballot

[Uzybone]

1. Rasmussen is a GOP hack

his polls have always been suspicious.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

3. Understood, but how is he doing it.

nm

[DemzRock]

5. How?

I'm sure he can manipulate the data any way he wants. From different/leading questions to changing the sample ratios of Dems, GOP, and independent to outright lying about the results. It doesn't matter in between elections. They only get close to truthful at the last moment (sometimes just the day before elections) so they can say, SEE we said such and such was going to win. In between, they are free to try to manipulate public opinion. Zogby and Gallup do the same thing. Only if they continue to be outliars, do they decide they better pull back or they will look suspicious.

IMHO.

[Mist]

9. I think Rasmussen polls in heavily Repub. areas, i.e.; Orange County CA. nt

[Atman]

2. Why? Because the GOP media needed some fresh talking points to go into the weekend

Rasmussen is always a Republican-leaning poll.

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[bluestateguy]

4. Because he cooks his numbers, that's why

His polls were juiced all of last year. Scott only brought his final polls into line with the others in the last days of the campaign. The final polls are the ones that pollsters are judged by in the end, and the final election eve polls are what people remember.

Pay him no attention. I ask that others do the same.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

7. Thank you for the info.

I found it amusing that Rasmussen does not have a history, graph, or something to show his line of predictions through the election. He only has an article touting his correctness in the final poll.

You know where I could find such charts?

[WI_DEM]

6. Actually NRP shows that in congressional elections it's tied 42-42 D vs R

That means that — relatively — people are happier with their leaders in Washington. But when asked whether they'd vote for the Republican or Democratic congressional candidate if the 2010 elections were held today, the result was a tie: 42-42.

"There's concern about the spending plans and other paths that Obama and Democrats in Congress are taking, so I think you're seeing a little bit more move toward a balance," Bolger said. "People still want the president to succeed. He's got a 59 percent approval rating. He has a lot of intensity, particularly from his base. But that doesn't mean that people want one side to have a blank check."

Obama's approval rating is down to 59% from 64% in previous poll.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101974694

I have said for some time now that if things are not noticably better in Nov '10 the Dems will take a huge hit in the congressional races--it doesn't matter if it's Bush's fault, voters will blame the party whose in power at the time for how things are.

[natrat]

8. obama is blowing it by letting the banks steal so much money, not rocket science

[lpbk2713]

10. Their polls are always cited by the RW Media Hatemongers

... as if to make listeners think their polls have the least bit of credibility.

And people from Rasmussen are always appearing exclusively on Faux.

If it quacks like a duck .....

[CreekDog]

11. how can a sheep quack?

:wtf: