[LS]

Well, what you said is simply not true. In 2006, the top three polls for senate races were SurveyUSA (off by 1.5%), and only missed ONE race out of 49 called; Mason-Dixon had 14 called, (off by 1.4%), and had one wrong; and Rasmussen called eight and got all eight, with a margin of error of 1.4%.

SurveyUSA is extremely reliable, and this is not good news.

[bushsupporter30]

The Rep base sat out the election in 2006.
Better years to compare are 2000,2002 and 2004.

[Wilder Effect]

LS, SUSA is okay at best.

This is the same outfit that had McCain up by 20% in NC recently.

Battleground the only pollster that has no bias, unlike SUSA and Gallup, has McCain up +1 today.

[DallasBiff]

And if I remeber correctly, you LS when I was lurking on FR, you yourself were predicting that the GOP was going to hold Congress in 2006. So why should i trust your opinion?

Also aren't you a college professor, and may have a vested interest in keeping alive the polling industry.

[mrsmith]

#the internals are even bigger crap.#

55% of respondents were college graduates LOL!
That can’t be realistic!

[zwerni]

i highly doubt it !!

VA is a republican state. Dynamics being as they are now I see mccain winning VA by 5 points.

don’t get me wrong - he still has to campaign there.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Isn’t SurveyUSA usually right at election day, but well off the mark over a month earlier.