I stopped paying attention to Rassmussen when I heard a writer for Salon.com talking on the radio about polls and polsters.
This writer did an expose' on the American media's obsession with polls and he listed reliable and unreliable polsters and polls in the story.
Rassmussen was listed as unreliable and there was all kind of statistics and data to back up the writers claim.
I watch Gallup and the battleground state polls to see where the EC stands.
It's OK RAS you just keep telling your self that. The election is a dead heat just like it was before the RNC, no bump for Bush.
Note: It's best to humor people in distress. It prevents suicides.
Rasmussen only polled the Kerry camp.
Rassmussen is a Jag-off.
The only person who seems to refer to this poll is Dick Morris. He is someone who analyzes each and every poll as the absolute truth. He must be confused by the collection out there now!
Anyone see Barney Frank's sister Ann Lewis talking about a one-point lead in the Gallup poll? Of course they all leap on any obscure stat that will help their (lost) cause!
Rasmussen is apparently weighting his results by assuming that the relative proportion of self-proclaimed 'Icans and 'Rats will be identical to what was observed in 2000. If the proportion is different today than what it was four years ago, Rasmussen's results are guaranteed to be wrong.
That said, I do think Kerry, and the MSM, will turn this into a very close race eventually. They are going slime W continuously for the next two months and some of his support will erode.
W will pull out a close win in November, but it won't be by more than a couple of percentage points.
National polls are irrelevant.
Yeah, it means that bush is killing him. If RasSKEWsen poll has them tied.
I think it's accurate. I think this thing is really tight. I think hubris, on our part, right now could be fatal. We need to play this thing like it's a tie or that we're behind.
GALLUP RV is showing the same thing.
--->GalluP RV
Bush 49%
Kerry 48%
Gallup LV
Bush 52%
Kerry 45%
Rasmussen is going to keep this neck and neck for the rest of the campaign, so nobody can say he was completely off. This poll is worthless.