Re: PoTUS 45 LVXII: Pandemic Legacy Season 3
None of this is true and I'm starting to question your sanity. Rasmussen even after they fired their founder always gives the GOP the best possible numbers that they can show, because there's a market for that. Goopers like being fluffed even if by a known con artist. Dems do not have a market for that, so PPP for example would get no benefit or repeat business by BS'ing their clients. I appreciate you playing the Both Sides Do It schtick, but I'm just not sure why you're doing it. It reminds me of when you tried to claim that Elijah Cummings was a grifter like Donna Brazile and got blasted for it.
It is true. Rasmussen has a typical model for registered voters but a perverse model for likely voters skewed towards older and more conservative voters well beyond their representation in actual turnout. This means they have baked in a surge towards Republicans as any given election nears. 538 talked about it at length when Silver allowed the Rasmussen polls into his aggregation with misgivings (he adjusted for it with variable house effect). One of Rasmussen's most lucrative markets is as a tool for Republican candidates to argue they are either pulling close if behind or pulling away if ahead. They sell the trend line - the raw numbers are meaningless and could be anything. IINM Rasmussen actually started as a proprietary in-house method to cook the books for Republicans, like PPP did for Democrats, and then went "public" to lend credence to the scam.
The key here is the longitudinal effect. Yes, Rasmussen and Fox eventually lie in favor of Republicans, but they start out either neutral or even sometimes lying against Republicans. Their strategy is to create a narrative that will get their dupes worried and involved and donating (and of course watching Fox).
None of this is true and I'm starting to question your sanity. Rasmussen even after they fired their founder always gives the GOP the best possible numbers that they can show, because there's a market for that. Goopers like being fluffed even if by a known con artist. Dems do not have a market for that, so PPP for example would get no benefit or repeat business by BS'ing their clients. I appreciate you playing the Both Sides Do It schtick, but I'm just not sure why you're doing it. It reminds me of when you tried to claim that Elijah Cummings was a grifter like Donna Brazile and got blasted for it.