They’re garbage. He has one of MO showing McCain down by 5. It is because he does a one day sample. Obama had a big rally on Saturday in MO, so Rasmussen polls a single day. Surprise surprise, Obama has a big night. A reputable pollster does 3 days for this reasons.
Re#5. Thanks. Frankly, I don’t know if anyone could weight the polls with any confidence this cycle. So many factors, e.g., PUMAs (saw recently a 30% number of Hillary supporters that are not in BO’s camp), Bradley/Wilder effect (amongst democrats and GOP voters are already not going to vote for BO), an invigorated GOP base (the Palin Effect and a genuine fear of BO by many others), Operation Chaos (as to democrat registration numbers in the latter ‘rat primary states) and the fact that the polls were so far off in the last of the democrat primaries where Hillary blew off BO’s doors in PA and the like. Heck, based on the foregoing and anecdotal evidence I see, I think a 1994 redux is possible with, if not similar results, a happy ending for our camp. Time will tell...