You maybe thinking of the Tarrance Group and Lake Snell Perry and Associates which are the two groups that do the Battle ground poll. The Battleground poll was initiated back in 1991.
Scott Rasmussen blew the 2000 election badly missing by some 9% or so. He shut his operation down and revamped. I think he still had problems in 02 but did well in 04 and 06. I'm not sure that Scott Rasmussen was ever with the Battleground group, if so only as a staff worker. Ed Goeas [Tarrance Group] and Celinda Lake [Lake Snell Perry] are the two prominent pollsters associate with Battleground.
Here are the final polls for 2000:
http://www.ncpp.org/poll_perform.htm
dogone deport, you are right...
But still Ras is a GOP leaning pollster and I still see where he handles it pretty impartially. But I'm totally blown out of the water on my reference.