[Calpernia]

No, it was a poll. This is why you have to go and check on the source for the real information. They said that today’s numbers didn’t come from a poll. It came from their prediction market.

THIS is what everyone is quoting as a poll:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2008_south_carolina_republican_primary

[Calpernia]

No, it was a poll. = No, it wasn’t a poll.

/typo

[pissant]

The SC numbers are a telephone survey. You are talking about the National numbers that are based on the ‘markets’

[codercpc]

What you are reading is a blurb that Rasmussen puts on every poll he puts out. He is advertising a separate product in that blurb, his prediction market.

The item we are discussing is his South Carolina poll taken yesterday....

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of South Carolina’s Republican.