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**Caregrasy** · 12-09-2010, 12:15 PM

it's his weekly request to guest on Fox News. He provided the most inaccurate polling of the last election, with virtually all of his polls baking in a several point advantage to Republican candidates that didn't exist in any other polling samples.

His polling methods only add to the suspicion. Rasmussen doesn't sample people by talking to them. He robo-calls landlines at night and his recorded questions ask for people to press keys on their phone to answer. Beyond the skewed questions, by polling this way, he tends to self-select rural and elderly participants - most younger folks have cell phones and those than don't tend to hang up for robo-call polls.

12-09-2010, 12:15 PM	#3
Caregrasy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 444 Senior Member	it's his weekly request to guest on Fox News. He provided the most inaccurate polling of the last election, with virtually all of his polls baking in a several point advantage to Republican candidates that didn't exist in any other polling samples. His polling methods only add to the suspicion. Rasmussen doesn't sample people by talking to them. He robo-calls landlines at night and his recorded questions ask for people to press keys on their phone to answer. Beyond the skewed questions, by polling this way, he tends to self-select rural and elderly participants - most younger folks have cell phones and those than don't tend to hang up for robo-call polls.
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