[Mudboy Slim]

"I do recall, however, that for Nov. 2000, he missed the mark. He predicted Bush by a few percentage points, and he was wrong."

Was Rasmussen's prediction made before or after the Dubyuh DUI story broke?!

FReegards...MUD

[hchutch]

I think it was before - he didn't do polling on weekends, IIRC. I'm not sure.

But then again, everyone underestimated the depths to which Gore would sink to.

[Poohbah]

He also didn't poll the metabolically challenged in St. Louis and Chicago. Gotta have a representative sample, dontcha know!

[truth_seeker]

"Was Rasmussen's prediction made before or after the Dubyuh DUI story broke?!"

Your point is well taken. I watched his polls, posted gleefully here on FR, in the weeks leading up to the election. They showed Bush up by a comfortable margin.

Then the DUI, which was brushed off (or so we thought). I don't recall that Rasmussen's polls were frequent enough, to show an impact.

I sent an e-mail, to Rasmussen, asking him for an analysis, of the missed prediction, in 2000.