The truth is they all are.
“...True, he didn't poll the week-and-a-half before the election (not sure why)...”
Because he thought it was in the bag for Marcia.
I'll say it again, no way Obama went up 11% in one week. And if it was a GOP candidate that went up that much in a week, I'd say the same thing.
Many FReepers have used the phrase “special sauce” regarding Rasmussen and his polls; they're onto something.
Rasmussen is one point of data, not the entire data set.
Special sauce is always used with Zogby polls, not Rasmussen
That's quite an ironic use of the phrase, given that "special sauce" arose from Zogby's botched call for Not-President Kerry's 300+EV victory in 2004 -- the election that Rasmussen nailed.