Posted on 09/26/2004 9:33:30 AM PDT by Owen
Bush slips 1%, which is noise . . . but there is now reason to believe the gap has closed some. Nothing good about that.
?? These look like the same numbers Rasmussen always has.
Rasmussen said in 2000 that the talk of an electorial schism was evidence that "the campaign had gone on for too long."
I believe his poll is interactive.
It's ugly, but negative campaigning works.
It is going to be close unless EVERYBODY who loves America gets out and votes to re-elect W.
Bring your friends and relatives along. Celebrate the 4th of July in November.
Fly the flag.
Rasmussen has no credibility after the debacle in 2000. The more accurate numbers would be to look at the individual state polls. If Dubya keeps all the states he won in 2000 (which looks like it will happen) and picks off WS (~+9 for W), IA (~+4 for W), and maybe PA (~TIE), then everything else is irrelevant. Also, W is closing in states like NJ, MD, NY, and even CA. All signs point to L A N D S L I D E. This election is starting to look like 1972 all over again.
Nonsense.
Nothing Kerry is doing is effecting the polls.
He is backing out of key states and defending his own.
Pollsters are now going to try to show that Kerry has 'momentum' but watch which states he is spending money in.
They tried to say the same thing in 1994 when the Democrats refused to believe they were on the verge of a meltdown.
After a couple weeks, the Polls will reveal what the campaign spending is revealing that Kerry is a meltdown and the Democratic party is avoiding going down with him.
Media tried to refocus on Bush's NG record.
Now Media is back in "woe-is-me" mode in Iraq.
Rasmussen is out of whack from other polls, that show Bush ahead by 5-8 points.
How is going more to the left helping Kerry and hurting Bush?
It hasn't worked in decades and it won't help the French One now.
This election is going to be out turnout, turnout, turnout in a half-dozen States.
I agree. I have been following daily numbers by Rasmussen for several months and this is just noise. The rasmussen polls had Bush +4 at the peak of his Convention bounce and Kerry +4 at the peak oh his. There has been a change of one point in the last four days...do not believe Rasmussen or Zogby. Believe Gallup...they have had a long track record in predicting the outcome of elections since the Eisenhower years. Besides, both Rasmussen and Zogby declared about 6 months ago that the election was Kerry's to lose...and now they want to keep it close...This election will not be close..Bush 53% Kerry and the elite media/pollsters 46%
Evidence? If you average the national polls together, they give Bush a lead of about six or seven points. The EC map confirms this.
Your right. Follow the money.
Polls taken on weekends are NOT reliable.
More Democrats stay home and answer stupid polling questions while Republicans go out and spend money boosting the economy.
this is a bs poll....
Time: Bush 48, Kerry 42, Nader 5
Marist: Bush 50, Kerry 44, Nader 2
AP Ipsos: Bush 52, Kerry 45, Nader 1
CBS News: Bush 51, Kerry 42, Nader 2
FOX News: Bush 46, Kerry 42, Nader 1
Rasmussen (9/26): Bush 47, Kerry 46
Cortesy Realclearpolitics
Now...which is the outlier poll? The polls should tighten a little bit but after the debates Bush should jump to a significant lead. Kerry will come attack, attack, attack...all Bush has to do is appear likable and hit the Boston Poodle with one liners like: "Is that your fian answer?"
Is Rassmusen the poll that George Soros is paying for?
News last week said that Soros was going to buy Kerry his own poll.
Since Rasmussen has always been a left-leaning poll, I suspect it's been tampered with.
Remember Zogby is a Democrat and is probably trying to boost Kerry in the MSM by reporting this poll.
what is the date for the time poll?
For the record - Rasmussen was an extremely pro-Republican poll in 2000 (it was called Portrait of America).
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