We see Rasmussen’s biased polls all the time. So I thought I’d share some information on Mr. Rasmussen. Right now he has Trump ahead by 7 points. Rasmussen cares about the attention his polls garner as that’s what brings home the bacon.
Rasmussen does not care about playing by the rules.
Rasmussen: "If I really believed for a moment that if we played by the rules of (the American Association for Public Opinion Research) or somebody else they would embrace us as part of the club, we would probably do that," he said in 2010. "But, number one, we don't care about being part of the club."
How Rasmussen conducts polls:
The pollster conducts polls in a brief, four-hour window, uses only published telephone numbers and routinely weights results for party identification -- a practice most public pollsters shy away from. www.washingtonpost.com/…
From another WAPO article on Rasmussen:
Rasmussen: "That has never been our niche," Rasmussen, who has a tanned dome and watery blue eyes, said of exhaustive surveys. Readying for a radio hit on another Senate contest, he added that he thinks Americans really are interested only in horse-race polling. "That's a reality you should deal with."
Name of Rasmussen’s high school band? Rebel's Confederacy
Rasmussen on Social Security: “He wrote columns for the conservative site WorldNetDaily in 2000. In 2001, he wrote a book advocating the privatization of Social Security.”
Ed Goeas, a Republican pollster who worked on John McCain's presidential campaign, defended the integrity of Rasmussen's numbers. But he suggested that Rasmussen take on a Democratic partner to balance his analysis. www.washingtonpost.com/...