Posted on 01/04/2010 10:31:08 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
The Politico published a Jan. 2 we-shoot-the-messenger styled story about lefty bloggers and Democrat activists who are upset that the Rasmussen polling group has so often found numbers trending in support of the GOP position. Not only has Rasmussen found that Obama's approval rating is going down steadily, but it has been finding that Republicans and Republican backed ideas are in ascendance. The left, though, is crying foul.
But the interesting thing about the story is that the complaints of the leftists don't seem to hold water at least if we take Alex Isendtadt's Politico piece as a case in point. Oh, there's lots of complaints, lots of claims that Rasmussen is some Republican operative (even though the firm has never worked for a partisan purpose or a specific candidate), and doubts galore, but there just doesn't seem to be any there there...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
I much prefer Democrat poll questions such as:
“Do you want government health care or do you want to die alone, naked and cold in the street?”
Yep, the lefty bloggers are absolutely right, America is totally in love with Obama and the democrat agenda. You can tell by how great they did in the elections a couple of months ago.
..... I think that the Democrats actually have a strong argument here. One of the things I noticed about Rasmussen’s polling cross-section is the complete absence of deceased voters, who usually vote Democratic in overwhelming numbers. That omission alone would badly skew their poll numbers.
I’m all for changing the poll questions to fudge the numbers. That way’ll they won’t know what hit them in November.
I wonder if some of the same critics are responsible for that TMZ poll — do you want Limbaugh to get well? Talk about asinine!
“Democrats on Rasmussen Polls: The Numbers Ain’t Right and The Question is Flawed”
They may very well be right and these polls may very well be skewed . . . in Obama’s favor! Which means it is even worse for them than they can possibly imagine.
I think what you are saying is really the truth.
Of course Rasmussen is flawed. As an example; we know for a fact that in the last election in some precincts in the Chicago area that there were more Democrat voters than registered voters...
Yeah?
New Jersey final polls from November:
Democracy Corps (D) 10/29 - 11/1 Corzine +4
Stockton/Zogby 10/27 - 10/29 Corzine +1
Monmouth/Gannett 10/31 - 11/1 Corzine +2
Rasmussen Reports 10/29 - 10/29 Christie +3
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2009/governor/nj/new_jersey_governor_corzine_vs_christie-1051.html#polls
Aactual results:
Christie +4.3
Rasmussen Reports (together with Survey USA) had the best prediction, only 1.3% from the actual results .
There is one outfit where “The Numbers Ain’t Right” though, and that was the very partisan Democracy Corps which continued to peddle fraudulent push polls that had Corzine winning my 4%, that was an error of a massive 8% from the real results!
No one should take any “polls” from Democracy Corps seriously. Meanwhile, Rasmussen has a very solid record of accurate poll predictions to go by. Let the results speak for themselves.
In that context, read "government health care" as "to die alone in a government nursing facility with your feeding tube removed."
This reminds me of the great Diebold debate of 2004. When Bush won, the leftoids insisted the machines were rigged. When their candidates won in 2006, no one claimed malfunctioning equipment.
It’s fine with me if they want to berate Ras rather than get the message the voters are sending. Can only help us.
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