[Political Junkie Too]

I never saw any jackmercer posts until the other day, so I missed out on a rich discussion. Even with the flaws in the Rasmussen polls, he also showed that the Senate was lost, too.

-PJ

[jackmercer]

From a macro view and in a vacuum, you can say Rasmussen did pretty well...and historically, he did do ok. But we live in a new era with lots of other outfits playing along.

Out of 18 national polling outfits this year, only Gallup did worse than him; Rasmussen was 17th in accuracy out of 18 and contrary to popular belief, he was tied at 6th most accurate in 2008...I have a post on that floating around somewhere

I’m not saying Rasmussen is a horrible pollster, though I discounted his polls in my calculations, I am saying that there are a very large number of better pollsters in the business today.