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Wikipedia:
"Rasmussen Reports
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conservative American polling company, founded in 2003."
"Rasmussen was "frequently reputed to have a Republican lean""
"Rasmussen's polling results diverged notably from other mainstream pollsters"
"Silver concluded that Rasmussen's polls were the least accurate of the major pollsters in 2010"
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Jonathan Chait of the
New Republic said that Rasmussen is perceived in the "conservative world" as "the gold standard"
[79] and suggested the polling company asks the questions specifically to show public support for the conservative position."
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Time magazine has described Rasmussen Reports as a "conservative-leaning polling group.""
"The
Washington Post called Rasmussen a "polarizing pollster.""
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John Zogby said that Scott Rasmussen has a "conservative constituency.""
"The
Center for Public Integrity listed "Scott Rasmussen Inc" as a
paid consultant for the 2004
George W. Bush campaign."
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The Washington Post reported that
the 2004 Bush re-election campaign had used a feature on the Rasmussen Reports website that allowed customers to program their own polls, and that Rasmussen asserted that he had not written any of the questions nor assisted Republicans."
"the commentators in question allege that the questions Rasmussen ask in polls are skewed in order to favor a specific response."
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Talking Points Memo has questioned the methodology of Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index, which takes into account only those who "strongly" approve or disapprove of the President's job performance."
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TPM noted that this inherently skews negative, and reported that multiple polling experts were critical of the concept.
[43] A
New York Times article claims Ramussen Reports research has a "record of relying on dubious sampling and weighting techniques."
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"A 2017 article by
Chris Cillizza for
CNN raised doubts about Rasmussen's accuracy, drawing attention specifically to potential
sampling biases such as the exclusion of calls to cell-phones (which, Cillizza argued, tended to exclude younger voters), and also more generally to a lack of methodological disclosure."
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