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Bravo Rasmussen Poll! How Did We Do?
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Posted on 11/05/2008 5:22:42 AM PST by WilliamReading

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1 posted on 11/05/2008 5:22:42 AM PST by WilliamReading
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To: WilliamReading

You forgot the Rasmussen self-congratulatory barf alert.


2 posted on 11/05/2008 5:24:37 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (I voted for America today. Did you?)
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To: WilliamReading

They got it right. No shame in giving them their due.


3 posted on 11/05/2008 5:25:56 AM PST by romanesq
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No one is pleased with the final results, but give Scott Rasmussen his props!

This poll results shows that John McCain lost the election mainly because of three events. The economic meltdown that followed the failure of Lehman Brothers, McCain’s weak response regarding the financial bailout, and John McCain’s very weak performance in his first debate with Obama.

Sarah Palin was a net plus for the ticket, but the VP nominee rarely if ever has a decisive role in the final vote.


4 posted on 11/05/2008 5:26:04 AM PST by WilliamReading
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They was wight and we was wong.


5 posted on 11/05/2008 5:29:45 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP! It's gonna be a BIG one.)
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To: WilliamReading

We dont care about polling accuracy around here. We care about pretend pollsters giving us unweighted polls (which means 70 % female, 50 % retired, 40 % stay-at-home om, 2-3 % under 30 years old ... hey, who do you think answers landlines these days?) so we can all live in lalaland until election day.

This is just more proof that Ras wouldnt lie to us.

It’s unforgivable. What’s wrong with him?


6 posted on 11/05/2008 5:30:16 AM PST by skipper18
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To: WilliamReading

I agree with you, plus John McCain had so many natural factors against him to begin with, it was always an uphill battle.

Who would have thought that when Bush was first elected, that by the end of his 2nd term, the Federal Government would be an enormous equity shareholders in our largest financial and insurance companies?

You think we have to wait for Hussein to be inaugurated to get Socialism??


7 posted on 11/05/2008 5:31:30 AM PST by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama is not your hip black friend)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

“They was wight and we was wong.”

And millions of people drank the Kool Aid.


8 posted on 11/05/2008 5:31:46 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: WilliamReading
Scott is one of the good guys in polling.

I hated the bad news he brought to us with regularity in this campaign, but he was obviously on the money and didn't show the frequent wild swings in numbers that many others did. He told it as straight as he could and didn't make up numbers just to get press coverage.

In the future, his polls (along with TIPP and Battleground) will continue to be the ones I will pay the most attention to.

9 posted on 11/05/2008 5:37:14 AM PST by comebacknewt
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Gallup Poll really screwed up this time and damaged their credibility. They showed Obama leading with 11 points, which was ridiculous, considering how radical Obama record was.

If it makes anyone feel better, people were more voting against Bush/Cheney than voting for Obama. Any other Democrat would have gotten a couple of more points than Obama did.


10 posted on 11/05/2008 5:45:44 AM PST by WilliamReading
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Rasmussen is one of the few credible pollsters. In 2008, like 2004, polls were all over the place. Rasmussen in 2004 and 2008 was steady as she goes. Pew got the same 52-46 number, but they had 0 up 15 points just days before, which suggests they were playing games to demoralize Republicans.

The pollsters that gave 0 a double digit win should go out of business, but they won’t.


11 posted on 11/05/2008 5:53:57 AM PST by Chet 99
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I give the pollsters no props at all. They had an agenda and worked to make it come true from the start.

That the sheeple fell for their line of snake oil is disgusting.


12 posted on 11/05/2008 5:55:42 AM PST by Carley (Vote McCain/Palin.....Change babies can live with.)
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To: WilliamReading

McCain should sue the 62 million or so Americans who voted for Obama for age discrimination.


13 posted on 11/05/2008 6:02:33 AM PST by RetiredArmy (America as founded is finished.)
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To: Carley

Their agenda is to give accurate polling results, not to elect McCain as president.

Clearly, some of the polls were deliberately fixed to damage McCain, CBS New York Times , Pew, and ABC Washington Post were in that category.

Gallup didn’t have an agenda but just got it wrong.


14 posted on 11/05/2008 6:04:24 AM PST by WilliamReading
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Pew was right on too


15 posted on 11/05/2008 6:17:37 AM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: WilliamReading
**The final Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll showed Barack Obama leading John McCain 52% to 46%. **

So is this the actual result?

16 posted on 11/05/2008 6:20:16 AM PST by Fawn (I'm ready for civil war.)
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To: Chet 99

But, seriously, what was all that stuff about on here from basically everybody that ALL polls are wrong and in the tank, no Democrat could get past 50%, McCain would win most undecideds? To believe that ALL polls were so far off, ALL OF THEM, even the Republican ones (who have no pro-Obama agenda) required its own “special sauce” washed down with heavy Kool-Aid.


17 posted on 11/05/2008 6:22:44 AM PST by floridagopvoter
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It’s called, “wishful thinking.”


18 posted on 11/05/2008 6:26:12 AM PST by dfwgator (I hate Illinois Marxists)
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To: floridagopvoter

Obviously that was wrong. The suspicion that a good many of these polls were crap and biased was right.

Tell me how a Pew poll has Obama up 15 two weeks in a row and then, for their last poll, they say “just kidding, his lead is really only 6, not 15”. Now they brag how accurate they were. Rasmussen didn’t play those kind of games.


19 posted on 11/05/2008 6:26:46 AM PST by Chet 99
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To: floridagopvoter
But, seriously, what was all that stuff about on here from basically everybody that ALL polls are wrong and in the tank, no Democrat could get past 50%, McCain would win most undecideds? To believe that ALL polls were so far off, ALL OF THEM, even the Republican ones (who have no pro-Obama agenda) required its own “special sauce” washed down with heavy Kool-Aid.

A lot of folks around here were in some dream land where it was forgotten that Obama hung a big millstone name Bush around McCain's neck. You would be hard pressed to find a better pair to run against (and win) than John McCain and George Bush. If not for Sarah Palin, the outcome would have been a total "no brainer" for anyone with their feet in reality - not a pleasant reality, but one nonetheless.

20 posted on 11/05/2008 6:36:44 AM PST by pt17
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