{"id":132948,"date":"2010-01-03T18:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/are-the-chillling-numbers-for-dems-due-to-pollster-bias-at-rasmussen-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-03T18:58:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:58:44","slug":"are-the-chillling-numbers-for-dems-due-to-pollster-bias-at-rasmussen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/132948","title":{"rendered":"Are The Chillling Numbers For Dems Due To Pollster Bias At Rasmussen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a big, slow-news-weekend story<\/a> over at Politico today over allegations made by certain Democrats and liberals that the prolific polling firm Rasmussen Reports is biased toward conservative and Republican causes. I have to catch a flight (weather permitting) in a couple of hours, so I don’t have quite as much time to weigh in on this as I’d like, but let me present the Cliff’s Notes version.<\/p>\n

The first thing to note is that there are a lot of different ways in which a polling firm might be biased. Rasmussen is most frequently accused of bias because their results are thought to lean toward Republican candidates. Just to pick a random example, for instance, Rasmussen has embattled Democrat Blanche Lincoln down by margins ranging between 4 and 7 points against three potential Republican opponents in her 2010 Senate race<\/a>, whereas two other polling firms (neither of which, incidentally, are themselves free of partisan ties) have Lincoln ahead against these opponents by margins ranging from 1 to 16 points. Does this mean that Rasmussen is biased?<\/p>\n

For me, it doesn’t — not necessarily.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the whole story at FiveThirtyEight.com — ><\/strong><\/a>
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