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Matthew Yglesias: Scott Rasmussen’s Conservative-Friendly Question-Wording
Hot Air » Top Picks: Heart-ache: 64% support stimulus, Obama’s mortgage plan
News: Poll: 11% of GOPers say Limbaugh is party leader
Think Progress: Rasmussen Polls On Non-Existent ‘Global Currency’ Issue, Before Admitting It’s A Non-Existent Issue
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Public Support for the Public Option
Scott Rasmussen’s Conservative-Friendly Question-Wording
Matthew Yglesias —
... To really understand this dynamic, you need to read my friend Dave Weigel’s story on Rasmussen for The Washington Independent. Dave doesn’t editorialize in his reporting, but if you read between the lines I think a pretty clear picture emerges. Rasmussen is a pretty good pollster whose results are within the range of accuracy one wants from a pollster. But polling is a crowded business. And Rasmussen doesn’t also have a daily newspaper or a television network to tout his results. His business, however, requires attention. So how does he get that ...
Heart-ache: 64% support stimulus, Obama’s mortgage plan
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... where support now stands at a radioactive 30/68. Exit question: What about all the Rasmussen polls showing growing discontent with Spendathon 2009? Well, discontent doesn’t necessarily mean disapproval; the public may be willing to accept this, however grudgingly, as hard medicine to prevent disaster. To the extent that Rasmussen’s suggesting anything else, check out the recent stimulus polls here and you’ll see that they’re swimming against the tide. Which isn’t anything new .
Poll: 11% of GOPers say Limbaugh is party leader
News —
... statements about Limbaugh. In this poll, it asked if respondents agree with Americans United for Change president Brad Woodhouse's statement that "Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. He says jump, and they say how high." Nearly three in ten of the survey's 1,000 respondents agreed with that statement while nearly six and ten disagreed. I am not entirely sure what empirical evidence that sort of question produces. And yes, I am familiar with the questions raised about Rasmussen in the liberal blogosphere . I'll reserve any judgment on ...
Oh my: Public opposes second stimulus this year by two-to-one margin
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... just two weeks ago that they expect another stimulus will be needed, and after all, we’ve been warned before that Rasmussen’s issue polls tend to skew towards the GOP position. On the other hand, 61 percent told the ...
Oh my: GOP leads on Rasmussen’s generic ballot for first time in years
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Oh my: GOP leads on Rasmussen’s generic ballot for first time in years posted at 4:35 pm on March 17, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Via Moe Lane . The usual caveats apply — it’s early, it’s Rasmussen , it’s at odds with the GOP’s general popularity these days — but even an eeyore as stalwart as me is starved for good news. I’ll take it: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% said they would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 39% would ...
Rasmussen Polls On Non-Existent ‘Global Currency’ Issue, Before Admitting It’s A Non-Existent Issue
Think Progress —
... , is in a panic about a supposed plot to replace the dollar with a “One World currency.” Repeating its pattern of echoing conservative memes, Rasmussen ...
Oh my: GOP now leads Dems by six points on economy in Rasmussen
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Oh my: GOP now leads Dems by six points on economy in Rasmussen posted at 4:45 pm on June 8, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Yes, yes, the usual caveats about Rasmussen polls apply, but we do after all have some timely corroborating evidence on this. I don’t want to freak out the HA faithful with uncharacteristic optimism but I’m starting to feel hope-y about this change-y . This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue… Republicans ...
Public Support for the Public Option
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... Who They Are / What's Their Angle: Regular readers of this website will be very familiar with Rasmussen Reports, a standalone polling firm that releases a prolific amount of polling data on elections and public policy issues. Past FiveThirtyEight.com analyses have generally found Rasmussen's electoral polling to be quite reliable. However, some observers have questioned its issue-based polling, which frequently tends to elicit responses that are more conservative than those found on other national surveys. Rasmussen Reports' founder, Scott Rasmussen, is a ...
SHOCKER: Rasmussen Poll Tilts to Ayotte
Blue Hampshire —
... , which led to another take on the same theme, in which I also learned that the pollster once wrote for World Net Daily (current center of birtherism, inter alia), and shortly after was a conspicuous Social Security privateer. ...
Rasmussen
Angry Bear —
... The Rasmussen polling agency has two reputations. They have a good record predicting the vote in elections (which means especially primary elections give schduling and attention and stuff). On general public opinion, they ask questions which sure sound like Republican push polls. The theories are that they want to become Republican's favorite pollster and/or that Scott Rasmussen allows his Republican preferences to guide his polling decisions. ...
