[ConservativeInPA]

What is nuts about the Rasmussen and Gallup polls is that they are not sampling based on there own party identification polls. Gallup has R+3 and Rasmussen R+5.

[DaveInDallas]

What is nuts about the Rasmussen and Gallup polls is that they are not sampling based on there own party identification polls. Gallup has R+3 and Rasmussen R+5.

And I think it's Ras that shows more Republicans voting for Obama this year compared to 2008. Not bloody likely.

[gman4bush]

I thought Gallup didn’t weight their polls? Maybe I read wrong.

[Crimson Elephant]

What is nuts about the Rasmussen and Gallup polls is that they are not sampling based on there own party identification polls. Gallup has R+3 and Rasmussen R+5.

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They are A) Playing it safe. If they are wrong, they don’t want to be wrong by A LOT. They can always claim a “late surge”.

B) Accounting for the Dems notorious ability to “turn out” votes...with all the creativeness that implies.

C) That much of a “plus” for Republicans is pretty unusual to trust completely if you are staking your business on the call.