[InterceptPoint]

The real point is that there never was a real bump. The MSM and the dems manufactured a bump coming off the rat convention to make it appear Odumbarse was going to sail to a win.

While I agree with this view I am still mystified by the Rasmussen results. We have, at least in the past, trusted Raz to not cook the books. Of course we don't know what Rasmussen is using for a turnout model. It could be that he has made an adjustment to his R/D/I mix.

[muawiyah]

Maybe he did nothing at all like you imagine. If he uses the self-identification provided by the people he polled, there's your answer ~ so you need to take it up with them and not Ras.

Or, maybe he has a pre-selected stable of LIKELY VOTERS who've been subjected to intense scrutiny and he just calls them up to see what they think this week versus last week.

Or, more likely, he pulls the results out of the air and takes a guess.