Why Do People Here Quote Rasmussen As If It Was Gospel?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

His robocall method is still rejected by the majority of reputable pollsters... It could be an eleven year old kid answering the questions since the calling machine has no way of knowing...

He nailed the 04 presidential election but his final 00 presidential election poll had Bush* beating Gore 49% to 40%...

Other polls show Hillary with bigger leads over Thompson and Guliani then Rasmussen... That's probably because he's making the classic mistake of not having the right percentages of Dems, Indys, and GOOPERS... That's why he has Bush* at 38% approval and almost every other poll has him between 29% and 34%...

As they taught us in research courses garbage in , garbage out...


Please discuss...

[MannyGoldstein]

1. I Think That He Was Most Accurate In '06 As Well

Although Carville disagrees, thinks that the Dems lost in '06, because of Dean.

Speaking of Dean - here's an example of why polls at this stage of the ganme mean absolutely nothing. Zilch. Bupkes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3530280&mesg_id=3530280

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. He's Not A Memember Of NCPP

http://www.ncpp.org/

And his calling machine has no way of distinguishing between an eleven year old or somebody that can vote...

As for polls, they are what they are, and that is a snapshot...