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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Sure it is. If you tweak the questions in a biased manner of course it skews the poll results, thats the whole purpose of asking biased or leading questions - and it affects the accuracy directly.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

Accuracy in predicting election results is not the same as bias on other issues where the questions can be tailored to receive the response the pollster wants.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


No, he didn't work for them which is what was asked, and conducting such polling isn't working for the campaign, its contract work. Rassmussen Inc is a private, stand alone business.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

Lemme just sidestep the namecalling and address Sanity's original post.

Sanity, while it may be true that the private sector is getting squeezed and the public sector is expanding, please not that a lot of that is due to the census and the stimulus, both of which are short-term.  IOW, the public sector will be shrinking again fairly soon.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

You are such a tool.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


If you really think the punk kid selling you your dollar menu goody down at McDonalds is your employee, then you're a moron.

And thats Rasmussens relationshop to the campaign, they were selling a service.

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Tony Snow, White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, attacked Rasmussen’s polling on the War in Iraq.More recently, Democrats have attacked his polling on President Obama’s Job Approval Rating and other topics. Rasmussen’s reported Job Approval Ratings for President Obama are typically several points lower than Gallup’s. He says this is because Gallup polls all adults and he polls likely voters.

Both Republican and Democratic candidates for office cite Rasmussen data in their correspondence. Susan Estrich, who managed the Presidential campaign for Michael Dukakis said, “If you really want to know what people in America think, you can't find a smarter guy to ask than Scott Rasmussen."

Rasmussen's polls are notable for their use of automated public opinion polling, involving pre-recorded telephone inquiries. These types of polls have been shown to produce accurate results at low cost. But some have doubted their reliability. In 2004 Slate magazine said they “publicly doubted and privately derided Rasmussen” polls because of the methodology. However, after the election, they concluded that Rasmussen’s polls were the most accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Rasmussen

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And really, Merc? Do you drink this koolade?

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

~ Fast Focus ~

Or this view; Economist David Henderson of the conservative Hoover Institution says a shift from private wages to government benefits saps the economy of dynamism. "People are paid for being rather than for producing," he says.

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ORIGINAL: flcouple2009

So you would rather at this point in time these people were all just out on the street starving?  So things like food stamps and unemployment payments are up while paychecks are down.  That's a shock, unemployed people don't receive paychecks.

Which is it,  Marxist, Communist, or Socialist?  You don't really seem to grasp that those terms and ideas are all vastly different.

I take this to mean your just for throwing everyone who might be unemployed under the bus?

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

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And really, Merc? Do you drink this koolade?

YES.

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Sanity using the term "Marxist" reminds me of Sarah Palin saying she could see Russia from her house.

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Hey cloud boy - Sara Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.

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Which is it, Marxist, Communist, or Socialist? You don't really seem to grasp that those terms and ideas are all vastly different.

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Hey cloud boy - Sara Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.

That was Tina Fey in a SNL skit...