Why do Rasmussen polls always come out more favorably for Republicans than other polls?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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we continue to suffer much higher than normal temps and little moisture…hoping for some t-strm activity later…got a 1 in 5 chance.
as to polls: newsweek’s latest paints a pretty dismal picture for monkeyboy…although l don’t see the impeachment question, he’s approval stands at 26%, and they were kind enough to include this nice comparative table:
he’s closing fast on nixon, and may beat truman before it’s over…18 months is a long time and he’s past lame duck status and is, for all intents and purposes, a prisioner in the WH….a still dangerous one, but trapped nonetheless.
lTMF’sA
I bought a spiral cut ham last and smoked it on the grill with a plank of hickory wood. YUMMY!
Also, I woke up this morning and had a link from Crooks and Liars in the Blog roundup. I am not some traffic freak that sweats it too much, but it is nice to occasionally get noticed. In the last 3 months I have had 3 links from the Blog roundup at C&l, 1 from Talking Points Memo and also 1 in the Blogs section of Raw Story. Considering half of what I cover is just local Connecticut stuff and the quality of all of the Blogs out there…
All of those links gave me mega traffic, but that ain’t the important thing. It is the fact that it also had some local people (in the New Milford area of CT) notice that there is actually a Blog nearby to them covering this stuff and the local stuff. The dozen or so Emails from the locals in the last few months is the biggest pat on the back I could hope for. 🙂
High five, CM1!
Make that ten. (Five from me too.)
Glad to be able to write that rather than do it. For some reason, I’m as awkward at giving high-fives as Elaine Benes was at dancing, and look about as ridiculous. Never could figure out why. Somebody next to me raises the hand. I raise mine. We look uncertainly at one another, each waiting for the other to start. Sometimes I would start, sometimes the other person would. Either way, there would be at best glancing contact, more often a total miss. And the other person would give me a confused, if not downright accusatory, look.
I never saw this happen to anybody else, so I figure it must be me. Fortunately, I always missed the other hand on the side away from the other person’s face and never bopped a would-be co-celebrant in the nose.
So anyway, a verbal, but no less enthusiastic for that, high-five!
Hey, Good goin! That’s a big thing, and could have good long term impact.
hope you’re all doing well.
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take a look at the american research group:
I believe that story was frontpaged here yesterday.
I believe also that Booman’s question about the discrepancies between Rasmussen’s findings and others was an implicit reference to that frontpaged story.
Incidentally, the Rasmussen poll asked whether Bush should be impeached and removed from office, whereas the ARG poll merely asked whether one favored the Congress’s “beginning impeachment proceedings” against Bush (and Cheney).
Conceivably, the difference between the questions asked might account for at least part of the discrepancy.
I mean, who knows? Maybe a statistically significant number of those polled understand the difference between impeaching (to say nothing of “beginning impeachment proceedings”) and actually removing from office.
To answer your question:
During a period of temporary insanity in my life, I had an administrative job in which taking telephone polls was an important component.
First, land line polls are skewed to older people and to republicans.
Second, longer polls are especially skewed to lonely older people, who tend to be republican.
So the longer you make a telephone poll, the more it skews to the last die-hard Bush supporters.
Transformers is Awesome: “Starscream, you have failed me once again,” was apparently all I wanted to hear. But very enjoyable. Really brought home how scary being in a war zone can be, even though it’s how we get the hot girls from across the tracks, or whatever.
Otherwise, just wondering, Um, but has anybody figured out what a citizen can realisticly expect in a country with a Supreme Court 2.5 standard deviations to the right of the rough mean of its polity? ‘Cause it kinda fraks me out.
you can expect to be on the losing end of pick up the soap for the foreseeable future….unless we ITMF’sA
My weekend is hampered by the continuing effects poison ivy. Now there’s a scrub to literally abrade the offending irritant. It does seem to help.
ACCCK! I feel for you boran2.
For at least couple of hours. (10 AM-12:30 PM EDT)
Anybody here know anything?
I know that there seems to be some some…disagreements…between the two websites. Nothing out front, just not much contact.
However…I see them as the yin and yang of the acceptable left blogoshpere.
Acceptable to me, anyway…
Later…
AG