[ambrose]

Frankly, I am tired of all the razzing of Rasmussen over his 2000 results. It is old. He blew the popular vote, but did hit the state results pretty much and did okay in 2002.

I don't see anyone bashing other bigger name pollsters over their own miserable failures.

[LS]

Guess you haven't been around here very long: many of us bashed the "established" pollsters BADLY from 1996-2000, when ONLY Zobgy (well, maybe Battleground) doing well.

A prof from Purdue even posted an extensive analysis of all the 1996 polling, where he found that all of them were off to the LEFT, which totally defied the odds unless there was a bias involved.

On Ras, I will give him credibility on his national poll when he establishes it. Fool me once . . . .

[Wolfstar]

You might find this study I did interesting. It was a case study using the CA recall polls. I know some of the people who responded to that thread when it first was posted were negative, but the truth is that the media use polls both as predictors and as a means to try to manipulate public opinion.

Link to poll study thread.