Rasmussen Poll Puts Dem Murray In Tight WA-SEN Race

Me too. Now how about we put 'Ras' or something like that on the front page too. That's where I linked from.

Once again:

Rasmussen said he is simply a "scorekeeper," but his spike in clout has sharpened skepticism about how he tracks the dip in Democratic fortunes. Frustrated liberals suspect sorcery. Markos Moulitsas, the creator of the Daily Kos blog, has accused the pollster of "setting the narrative that Democrats are doomed" with numbers that fuel hours of Republican-boosting on talk radio and cable.

The old guard of the polling industry charges that Rasmussen merely makes educated guesses, like a market-savvy contestant on a political "The Price Is Right," and considers him a threat to the standards of an industry already facing existential challenges. Those traditional peers fear Rasmussen's rise signals the fall of the in-depth probing that politicians, policymakers and reporters have turned to for more than half a century.

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"The firm manages to violate nearly everything I was taught what a good survey should do," said Mark Blumenthal, a pollster at the National Journal and a founder of Pollster.com. He put Rasmussen in the category of pollsters whose aim, first and foremost, is "to get their results talked about on cable news."

Nate Silver, who runs the polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight, soon to be hosted on the Web site of the New York Times, faults Rasmussen for polling only likely voters, which reduces the pool to "political junkies."

"It paints a picture of an electorate that is potentially madder than it really is," agreed Scott Keeter, director of survey research at Pew Research Center and vice president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). "And potentially more conservative than it really is."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/16/AR2010061605090.html

Rasmussen polls are partisan bullshit polls. Yet if you look to the right, all you see on "TPM PollTracker" are Rasmussen polls. And every day a new story on yet another Rasmussen poll. Enough already.

TPM should take the AVERAGE of the weekly Rass 'polls' and add it in each MONDAY MORNING.

But this daily exposure is pure bullcrap.

So why does TPM constantly tout Rasmussen? I'm not saying ignore Rasmussen as he's, well, out there. But his detractors are legion, the evidence of his "hackery' vast, yet this site still acts like he's a pollster of repute. And it's not cause he's Right Wing, I've seen suspect left leaning polls. But Rasmussen is a train wreck. Am I missing something here?

Rasmussen, what a joke - Murry is 5 - 10 points ahead.