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Old 07-08-2010, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Hoboken
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I disagree. When people see "Obama's approval rating", most of them don't distinguish between Rasmussen's methods and most of the other polling companies' methods.

It's okay, though. You like/lick/worship Rasmussen, and I prefer to take a more comprehensive and discerning view of the major polls.

Hey, I rely on the poll which accurately predict who will be governing the country. If you have some fascination in trivia (meaningless data, people who don't vote are meaningless in our political process) I suggest you follow Research 2000.

By the way the polls you prefer are the very antithesis of discerning.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/discerning
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Old 07-08-2010, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Texas
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masturbation
you said a bad word
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:00 PM
 
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This is why Liberals are such bad problem solvers. They like to work a problem based on what they want reality to be, not on the actual facts of the matter.
No, dear. It's called "consider the source". If you think that Rasmussen is the only poll worth trusting, then you're guilty of the very mentality you're accusing liberals of having.

I know what I'm getting with Rasmussen. They have an odd way of collecting data and presenting their poll results.
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:19 PM
 
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No, dear. It's called "consider the source". If you think that Rasmussen is the only poll worth trusting, then you're guilty of the very mentality you're accusing liberals of having.

I know what I'm getting with Rasmussen. They have an odd way of collecting data and presenting their poll results.
So does MSNBC
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:23 PM
 
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Hey, I rely on the poll which accurately predict who will be governing the country.
You continue to say that, but there's a big difference between a poll that predicts the outcome of an election and a poll that is simply an opinion poll. Rasmussen doesn't have to worry about being accurate in their opinion polls because there's nothing to confirm or verify their results. Get it?

Rasmussen does need to be concerned about their accuracy when they know that there will be an election which will confirm or deny their findings. With an opinion poll, there's nothing to verify their results, so they can say anything they want, and it really doesn't matter.
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:26 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Personally I don't click on any polls put out by Rasmussen anymore.
You don't have the guts to do that, huh?
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Gallup acceptable to any of the lefties here?

Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval
The really funny part of this is that their numbers are so much like those from Rasmussen. I guess this limits the number of polls these people can look at to two less.
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:30 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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I would never go with one or two poll... I would go with a conglomerate of polls... any one poll is going to have a bias (i.e. lie)... here is a website that gives the averages of a bunch of polls...

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Obama Job Approval

46% approve and 48% disapprove (for the lazy)...
Well yeah, but those are the numbers of Rasmussen and the others.

I don't mean anything bad but Rasmussen was the closest poll to the outcome of the 2008 election and yet lefties can't stand that.
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:32 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Gallup is usually in line with RCP's average, unlike Rasmussen who are normally
about 10 points lower than the rest, including FOX.
How do you know all this when you never look at Rasmussen? You said that, you know?
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Old 07-08-2010, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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and am I to assume old faithful is you? or a park in Wyoming
You watch who is the first person on almost every thread I post. Yep it is old meson that is the faithful one.
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