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Yosemito

(648 posts) Tue Nov 27, 2018, 03:25 AM Nov 2018

Why is Rasmussen still using likely voters in their Trump approval polls?

No pollster other than Rasmussen pretends to know who is a likely voter 2 years before an election.
And that's assuming Rasmussen is referring to the 2020 Presidential election as opposed to the Congressional elections. This is not obvious because job approval has nothing to do with a matchup between Trump vs. a Democrat.

One possibility is that Rasmussen (a Republican polling firm) doesn't even poll anyone, instead making up numbers outright (in order to make Trump look good) and they forgot to get rid of the LV thing.

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Why is Rasmussen still using likely voters in their Trump approval polls? (Original Post) Yosemito Nov 2018 OP

Because republicans do better among likely voters Cicada Nov 2018 #1

it shifts their results way republican, they have always done this and why you pay no beachbum bob Nov 2018 #2

Cicada

(4,533 posts)

1. Because republicans do better among likely voters

Reply to Yosemito (Original post)

Tue Nov 27, 2018, 03:45 AM

Nov 2018

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

2. it shifts their results way republican, they have always done this and why you pay no