Rasmussen White House Watch: Still Neck-and-Neck (Trump +2)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | October 24, 2016

[Zakeet]

Donald Trump still has a slight edge in Rasmussen Reports’ latest White House Watch.

The new national telephone and online survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows Trump with 43% support to Clinton’s 41%. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson gets five percent (5%) of the vote, while Green Party nominee picks up three percent (3%). Another three percent (3%) like some other candidate, while five percent (5%) are not sure.

[Zakeet]

Rasmussen is less rigged than the MSM bunch ...

[AU72]

Can some concerned Freepers now step back from the ledge?

[ZULU]

Hope so.

[Phillyred]

Meanwhile my local morning news programs just continue to only peddle that NBC double digit lead poll as if it is THE poll. Unbelievable.

[TakebackGOP]

It doesn’t make sense how every time he makes his best speeches or when he had his best performance in the second debate, he struggles in the polls.

[Sooth2222]

That’s encouraging, because (correct me if I’m wrong), the Rasmussen pollsters appreciated the weekend cyclicality in their prior election polls and so stopped weekend polling. (If I’m right, and weekend cyclicality is influencing the LA Times and IBD polls, Trump should do better as the week unfolds.)

[rb22982]

They polled Sunday. This is the first time in a while on the Rasmussen poll where the Monday updated hasn't shifted to Clinton. From their website:
"The survey of 1,500 Likely Voters was conducted on October 19-20 and 23, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology."

[Gay State Conservative]

Can some concerned Freepers now step back from the ledge?

Of course no sane person with an IQ greater than 70 will believe NBC with The Former Twelfth Lady at +11.As we all know the only polls that really mean anything are the ones that accurately depict how things look in a half dozen (or so) battleground states...OH,VA,NC,NV,FL and maybe two or three others.

As for the polls that show them tied in TX (for example)...BARBARA STREISAND!

[BlueStateRightist]

There are going to be good and bad days over the next 2 weeks. I feel the voting citizenry knows the choice in front of them. On Nov 8 we will have a fair referendum on which direction our country will permanently take.

[wbill]

yup, if TX is tied, then DJT might as well hang it up right now. Because if he can't carry a conservative state like TX, then he'll lose by 25 in PA FL, etc and by 40 or 50 in liberal NY and CA.

Hint: He's doing fine in Texas, also Georgia. If there was even a sniff of trouble in those states, then you'd see both Hillary and Trump landing their resources there.

and, reporting in from NC. Saw my first Hil->liary bumpersticker and two signs last week. Strangely, the signs were gone the next time I drove by. I'm sure that someone had a change of heart, or something.

Fair-ish number of Trump signs, though not as many as I've seen in past elections. Most are where I'd expect, in rural or suburban areas. Short handful in urban areas, though.

[MGG]

Bret Baier said last night that they don’t use Rasmussen, well......because...

[karnage]

Rallies mean nothing. It’s GOTV - and poll watchers!