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Rasmussen Daily: SAT: 10/20: R:49% O:48% (Full post debate sample)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 10/20/2012 | Rasmussen Reports

Posted on 10/20/2012 6:37:54 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 48%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate,...

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KEYWORDS: election; obama; rasmussen; romney
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To: InterceptPoint

You just have to watch Rassmussen’s number over the past three months. His Sunday and Monday results almost always show a serious rise for Obama, and then if level back on Tues/Wed. No conspiracy, just basic observation skills.


21 posted on 10/20/2012 7:01:24 AM PDT by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: Lacey2

Lacey,

Try again. Sometimes links can get cached.

Alternatively you can try this link:

http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll


22 posted on 10/20/2012 7:02:56 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: InterceptPoint

InterceptPoint,

I am showing the Saturday data.

Alternatively, try this link:

http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll


23 posted on 10/20/2012 7:03:47 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: Perdogg

“Swing State Tracker: Romney 50 Obama 46”

That’s the bigger stat, as O led R by 2 in the swing state tracker early in the week. This means a 6 point swing in the swing states over 5 days. Barring some ridiculous (and somehow effective) October Surprise, the election is Romney’s. No doubt.


24 posted on 10/20/2012 7:04:58 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Here is confirmation about Swing States.

Romney hits 50% for the first time!!!!

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_swing_state_tracking_poll


25 posted on 10/20/2012 7:05:44 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: Perdogg
"Swing State Tracker: Romney 50 Obama 46"

This IS looking more and more like the blowout we are sensing.

26 posted on 10/20/2012 7:06:46 AM PDT by GonzoII (Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)
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To: SoftwareEngineer
BIG IMPACT NUMBERS FROM TODAY

Obama -16% for the FIRST time in weeks

Obama's Job Approval: 47% which is lower than the 48% he has been for quite a while
27 posted on 10/20/2012 7:08:12 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: SoftwareEngineer; tatown

What does Ras consider swing states?

Right now, including ME CD2, my WCS is Romney - 292; Obama -246


28 posted on 10/20/2012 7:11:25 AM PDT by Perdogg (Vote like the US Constitution depends on it - it does!!)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Scott moving the Mitt marker to 50, slowly but surely, just as I said.


29 posted on 10/20/2012 7:11:48 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (2008 + IN, NE1, NC, FL, VA, OH, CO, IA, NV = 287EV)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Your link was good, thanks. I’ve had the problem before. How would I been able to get the correct page had you not supplied me with the link?

I tried multiple ways including a search for Rasmussen which got me to the site but the results still showed for yesterday rather than today.


30 posted on 10/20/2012 7:12:58 AM PDT by Lacey2
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To: SoftwareEngineer

With all the up and down emotions over the swing in poll numbers it would be interesting to know how many on FR respond to polling. I don’t and most friends don’t, so accurately could these polls reflect conservative votes?


31 posted on 10/20/2012 7:13:55 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: Perdogg

Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.


32 posted on 10/20/2012 7:16:04 AM PDT by tatown (Obama was right, it was a 'one term proposition')
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To: gusopol3

“You have to wonder what the 10% response rate does to the final product. “

Well, ponder this, then. I mentioned to a conservative business-owner friend of mine that I totally dodge all political and polling calls, and he said he did the same thing. So we briefly discussed if this might be a trend among conservatives in general, and we thought that might be possible. And then he added that in conversations with some of he liberals he has to deal with that they made a point of exclaiming how eager they were to make their opinions known to the pollsters. So, now you may have a trend of conservatives dodging the pollsters and the liberals eagerly taking their calls. It really makes you wonder how accurate some of these polls really are.


33 posted on 10/20/2012 7:17:03 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Lacey2

Lacey,

Typically one reason for the “old page” could be that the page is cached in your browser memory. Typically the easiest thing to do is to close ALL browser sessions and start again

Also, you can go to the browser settings and remove all cached data

Also, in some browsers you can set how often your browser refreshes its cache or should even have a cache

But in most cases, you can just shut down all browser sessions and try again

Then again (and this is the software engineer in me :)) it is MORE than possible that Rasmussen is using more than one server to serve up his traffic (a cluster of servers if you will) and maybe some had been updated and some had not and the server serving your ISP or Node had not been updated.

In that case it was ALL Rasmussen’s fault!! :)


34 posted on 10/20/2012 7:17:38 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: ilgipper
You just have to watch Rassmussen’s number over the past three months. His Sunday and Monday results almost always show a serious rise for Obama, and then if level back on Tues/Wed. No conspiracy, just basic observation skills.

You could be right but the data to prove it is not readily available. I'm hoping that some Freeper has an Excel file to share so we can do an actual analysis.

And you should note that Rasmussen weights his phone results based on his expected voting D/R/I populations. So that should make his results completely independent of the the number of Dems, Republicans or Independents who were actually at home and answering the phone. As a result, it is not obvious to me how a weekend bias would leak into the Raz results.

35 posted on 10/20/2012 7:18:57 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: SoftwareEngineer

It is noteworthy to point out that Obama’s overall approval has moved down to 47 and the Strong Approve/Strong Disapprove Index is at -16! Those are really bad numbers for King Turdhead.


36 posted on 10/20/2012 7:18:57 AM PDT by tatown (Obama was right, it was a 'one term proposition')
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To: SoftwareEngineer

In that case it was ALL Rasmussen’s fault!! :)

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37 posted on 10/20/2012 7:19:07 AM PDT by Lacey2
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To: SoftwareEngineer
Obama's Job Approval: 47%

I have such a hard time believing this number. OMG. If this number is accurate, then the outcome of this election is pretty irrelevant, as these people will all bring us crashing down eventually. A country just cannot survive that many moronic people.

38 posted on 10/20/2012 7:22:08 AM PDT by kevao (Is your ocean any lower than it was four years ago?)
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To: catnipman

FWIW, I hang up on pollsters, as does my husband. I trust them as much as the MSM.


39 posted on 10/20/2012 7:22:31 AM PDT by mplsconservative ($7.75 for a block of Velveeta cheese? Let's have an anti-Obama grilled cheese revolt!)
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To: tatown

Yeah!!

That is an important point that many of us are missing in this “obsession” over the topline numbers.

-16% shows intensity. This is a point that we all need to remember. My state (TX) allows early voting and the FIRST day of early voting is Monday, 10/22.

You can bet your leopard print underwear that I will be there first thing in the morning on Monday, before going to work, to vote. Keep in mind, this is Texas, where the ONLY thing that is in doubt is the scale of the defeat of President Obama.

I can imagine, most other conservatives and even moderates feel like that.

Secondly, the Job Approval number i.e. 47%. Historically, your final vote total will mirror that to a tee. If I think you are doing a “good or OK or even barely acceptable” job, I will vote for you.


40 posted on 10/20/2012 7:25:44 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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