{"id":375461,"date":"2010-03-01T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77903"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:52:47","slug":"scott-ramussen-responds-to-stu-rothenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375461","title":{"rendered":"Scott Ramussen Responds to Stu Rothenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/55_95\/rothenberg\/43630-1.html?type=printer_friendly\">passing around this article<\/a> by election handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, which takes the hammer and tongs to Rasmussen Reports. Rothenberg focuses on a poll that finds Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) weak against a first-time candidate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dave Westlake probably is a nice guy, and I wish him well. But there is no way that two out of three likely Wisconsin voters know enough about him to have an opinion of him (unless Rasmussen provided other information, such as party). And that\u2019s what the favorable\/unfavorable question is intended to produce \u2014 information about the person\u2019s name identification and image.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I asked Scott Rasmussen to respond. &#8220;I think it\u2019s funny,&#8221; he said, &#8220;that some people like to pick at the details rather than focusing on the overall accuracy of our work.&#8221;<span id=\"more-77903\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen&#8217;s full answers after the jump:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We ask favs <em>after <\/em>the ballot question. So, the little known candidates get a lot of very \u201csomewhat\u201d fav or unfav depending upon which party they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the reason we emphasize the Strong opinions in our stories.<\/p>\n<p>We ask favs after the ballot question for two reasons. First, the ballot question is most important. Second, most people may not know the names of challengers even on election day. But they have an opinion along the lines of \u201cOh yeah, that\u2019s who\u2019s running against Senator so-and-so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s funny that some people like to pick at the details rather than focusing on the overall accuracy of our work.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also interesting that people fail to note other aspects of our polling. For example, in the Rothenberg article, he claims that Daggett underperformed all the polls. Actually, we nailed the NJ race (we showed Dagget with 8 and he got 6). It was the operator-assisted polls that showed Dagget with a bigger number.<\/p>\n<p>Another example is in Nevada where our latest polling shows the most favorable result for Harry Reid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are passing around this article by election handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, which takes the hammer and tongs to Rasmussen Reports. Rothenberg focuses on a poll that finds Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) weak against a first-time candidate. Dave Westlake probably is a nice guy, and I wish him well. But there is no way that two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}