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In reply to the discussion: Trump 41%, Clinton 39% [View all]LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)Polls very much to the right of center, and it's chief pollster and owner of the polling company, Scott Rasmussen is a polarizing pollster.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2012/09/17/rasmussen-the-gops-cure-for-the-common-poll/
Also, Nate Silver gives Rasmussen a C rating: C=average. In fact, going back to 2010, Silver identified Rasmussen as a pollster who is very biased, and usually in favor of Republicans because of the way and because of the timing of their polling questions and because of what type of methodology/and the way they conduct their polling which is USUALLY in favor of Republicans.
Mean-reverted bias: A pollsters historical average statistical bias toward Democratic or Republican candidates, reverted to a mean of zero based on the number of polls in the database.
R+2.3 In favor of the GOP candidate(s).
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-rasmussen-reports-biased/
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