[nhwingut]

Yep. It makes no sense to poll for party id, and then throw them out the door when doing your poll. It’s a waste of money.

The only reason he’s doing it is to appease the Chicago thugs. Right now he has the party id at R+2.6. If he polled every day using that sample, Romney would be up about 5 points.

In 2004 Rasmussen had the party id (at this time) at D+1 and Bush won by 3.

In 2010 Rasmussen had the party id at D+2 and it was a GOP landlside.

At R+2.6 (plus the enthusiasm edge) we are looking at the biggest wipeout in history.

[muawiyah]

With a 91% nonresponse rate anyway, it makes no sense to adjust your polling results to conform to some other equally inadequate poll you took that did nothing but look at political affiliations claimed by voters.

Seriously ~ all this stuff is garbage now. You really can't take polls with phone calls anymore.