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President Trump’s favorite poll isn’t giving him a boost anymore. The President’s approval rating in Rasmussen Reports, a right-leaning and oft-criticized polling firm beloved by Trump, dipped below 40% for the first time ever Monday. That new low reflects Trump’s plunge in nearly every mainstream opinion poll, which have shown him scoring record-low approval ratings through his first months in office. It also comes just a month after Trump hand-picked a Rasmussen poll as proof that he was performing better than his predecessor, former President Barack Obama. Monday’s Rasmussen survey showed Trump getting overall approval from only 39% of likely...

A poll released Tuesday by Public Policy Polling suggests that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) would narrowly defeat President Donald Trump if the 2020 election were held today. In its report on the poll, PPP — a liberal polling company — observes that Harris is one of several candidates who are currently ahead of Trump in hypothetic matchups: Trump does a lot of losing in our poll. Voters wish that either Barack Obama (53/40) or Hillary Clinton (49/42) was President instead of Trump. Trump loses by wide margins in hypothetical matches against Joe Biden (54/39) or Bernie Sanders (52/39) for reelection....

the obvious sampling bias in the latest ABC / Washington Post poll that showed a 12-point national advantage for Hillary. Like many of the recent polls from Reuters, ABC and The Washington Post, this latest poll included a 9-point sampling bias toward registered democrats. ... for all of you out there who still aren't convinced that the polls are rigged, we present to you the following Podesta email, leaked earlier today, that conveniently spells out, in startling detail, exactly how to rig them. The email starts out with a request for recommendations on "oversamples for polling" in order to "maximize...

Wikileaks emailid 26551 "Attached are the state by state polling and research recommendations from the ATLAS product" [see attachment on overpolling recommendations " also want to get your Atlas folks to recommend oversamples for our polling before we start in February. By market, regions, etc. I want to get this all compiled into one set of recommendations so we can maximize what we get out of our media polling." From the attached recommendations: Arizona Over-sample Hispanics...use Spanish language interviewing. (Monolingual Spanish-speaking voters are among the lowest turnout Democratic targets.) Over-sample the Native American population. The ratio of voters-to phone numbers...

For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future. Intensely worried about their personal finances and medical expenses, Americans nonetheless appear realistic about the time Obama might need to turn things around, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. It shows most Americans consider their new president to be a strong, ethical and empathetic leader who is working to change Washington. Nobody knows how long...

While it may appear that Republicans generally are getting hammered in a wide variety of polls going into this last month before the November mid-term elections, what is almost never explained by the pollsters, or their media conspirators, is that the polling data is deliberately skewed to favor the Democratic outcome. (Gee, who would have guessed?)The scam is a simple, yet thoroughly devious one. The polling service simply "samples" a disproportionately large number of Democrats versus Republicans in its poll. Taking as an accurate generalization that Democrats poll one way for the most part, and Republicans another for the most...

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds a decline in George W. Bush's job approval rating. After standing at 49% approval in the prior two CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls conducted this month, now just 44% of Americans say they approve of Bush, a new low mark for the president. The poll also shows a drop in Bush's favorable rating to 48%, which is the first time it has dropped below 50% since Gallup began tracking this opinion in 1999. Four in 10 Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, which is essentially unchanged from early...