National Tracking Poll Thread

[ChrisFromNJ]

Rassmussen

Obama 47
Romney 45

With leaners:

Obama 50
Romney 47

Seriously, these tracking polls are all over the place. Who knows what to think anymore. Isn't that a significant jump for Obama from yesterday?

[ChrisFromNJ]

Daily tracking polls feed the hunger of political strategists, campaigns and the political press. I'm not sure they provide much in the way of anything else that a once a week national poll couldn't tell us. From day to day, This race is not changing at the pace Gallup tells it is. It is statistical noise within the margin of error.

[ChrisFromNJ]

Slowly but surely, Rasmussen will try to earn back credibility. The switch to a likely voters  screen is that opportunity.

BTW, you know the news is good for Obama when it is past 930 am and J.J still hadn't posted in the thread.

[ChrisFromNJ]

You really have to question Scott Rasmussens motives when he is leaking poll results to Matt Drudge, right wing kingmaker. This is not the same Scott Rasmussen four years or eight years ago. He is now a bought and paid for operative for the right wing, who provides the conservative narratives that Drudge and Fox News run with. While the race is within the margin of error, Fox News now has a narrative to drive on the last day of the campaign. It's really a shame how money and influence could corrupt such an outstanding pollster.

[ChrisFromNJ]

RCP are saying that Rassmussen has Romney +1 - 49-48

It is not up on his website.

You really have to question Scott Rasmussens motives when he is leaking poll results to Matt Drudge, right wing kingmaker. This is not the same Scott Rasmussen four years or eight years ago. He is now a bought and paid for operative for the right wing, who provides the conservative narratives that Drudge and Fox News run with. While the race is within the margin of error, Fox News now has a narrative to drive on the last day of the campaign. It's really a shame how money and influence could corrupt such an outstanding pollster.

You could say the same about PPP.  I wouldn't say that in either case.

No, you couldn't say the same about PPP. PPP doesn't leak their results to say, MSNBC, in order to drive a narrative to fluff up their candidate. MSNBC also doesn't give a paycheck to any member of PPP.

You do realize what a conflict of interest it is that Scott Rasmussen, an "independent pollster", receives a paycheck from the kingmaker of the GOP, Fox news?

The false equivalency doesn't work here. While PPP's staff may be Democrats, there is zero evidence to suggest that they are influenced in any way by any left wing media outlets.