"Mason Dixon being top dog is no suprise, but the performance of the phonebots -- Rasmussen and SurveyUSA -- certainly was."
I'm not surprised by SurveyUSA's results. They were the 2nd-best (behind M-D) in 2002 and in 2000.
Maybe, but in 2004 they seemed to get some key battleground states wrong in most of their polling, most notably Ohio and Florida (where at least until the end they consistently tilted three or four more points to the French Poodle guy than other major polls).