NY: Rasmussen: Cuomo leads by 14 points

[Tender Branson]

New Poll: New York Governor by Rasmussen on 2010-10-20

Summary: D: 51%, R: 37%, I: 5%, U: 6%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Landslide Lyndon]

LOL!
Apparently Rasmussen is jealous of all these Republican candidates that have become SNL material.

[tpfkaw]

This is the closest of the 3 NY races, according to Rassy. :S

[Phony Moderate]

There's a good chance that this is yet more borderline trolling.

[SvenssonRS]

There's a good chance that this is yet more borderline trolling.

Or, it could just be polling. I.E. inaccurate by default until proven otherwise by results.

Or is that just me who thinks that?

[cinyc]

This is the closest of the 3 NY races, according to Rassy. :S

Well, it is the only one of the 3 races where the Republican is advertising Downstate.  It's also the only one of the 3 races where the Republican is well-known statewide, albeit for putting his foot in his mouth.

[Miles]

Its amazing how much Rasmussen is underestimating Cuomo.

[Smash255]

Lol Scottie....

[Associate Justice PiT]

There's a good chance that this is yet more borderline trolling.

Or, it could just be polling. I.E. inaccurate by default until proven otherwise by results.

Or is that just me who thinks that?

     Eh, being off past a certain point is hard to explain. Survey USA's last poll showed a difference of 12% in the margins. Some other polls showed nearly twice that.

     With that said, I do think people on this forum on both sides are much too fast to cry foul when a poll is released that is an obvious outlier. Even if a poll is perfectly conducted, 1-in-20 will be outliers. In the real world where polling is an imperfect art, the ratio is undoubtedly somewhat worse.