Today's Rasmussen - Bush up by 4

[kstewart33]

48.8 to 44.8

Does anyone have any premium numbers from the Rasmussen site?

[dennis4868]

1. hmmmmm.....

I thought todays Rass. poll would be closer than that based on the feeling out there that Kerry has some momentum and how it is coming out now from repub senators how badly Bush is screwing up the situation in Iraq....damn!

seems like the more people die in Iraq the better it is for Bush's poll numbers....pisses me off :-(

[GrapplerHK]

8. ignore the polls

they dont matter

[newyawker99]

9. Hi GrapplerHK!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[hadrons]

2. could be from the CBS thing ...

[4_Legs_Good]

3. I think we'll see another dip from that...

But hopefully it won't last long. If we can keep these stupid fake-issues off the table from here on out we can easily make it up.

Let's just hope Kerry's voice clears up by the debate next week!

david

[saracat]

7. What's wrong with Kerry's voice?

[4_Legs_Good]

10. He was all squeaky last night in Florida

He's either got laryngitis or he's coming down with a cold. He's gotta have that yap box in prime condition come next Thursday.

david

[Tempest]

4. The polls are bogus, why bother with them?

Making call on sham of political polling

Jimmy Breslin

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres163973220sep16,0,5025667.column

Anybody who believes these national political polls are giving you facts is a gullible fool.

Any editors of newspapers or television news shows who use poll results as a story are beyond gullible. On behalf of the public they profess to serve, they are indolent salesmen of falsehoods.

This is because these political polls are done by telephone. Land-line telephones, as your house phone is called.

The telephone polls do not include cellular phones. There are almost 169 million cell phones being used in America today - 168,900,019 as of Sept. 15, according to the cell phone institute in Washington.

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"The people who are using telephone surveys are in denial," Zogby was saying. "It is similar to the '30s, when they first started polling by telephones and there were people who laughed at that and said you couldn't trust them because not everybody had a home phone. Now they try not to mention cell phones. They don't look or listen. They go ahead with a method that is old and wrong."

Zogby points out that you don't know in which area code the cell phone user lives. Nor do you know what they do. Beyond that, you miss younger people who live on cell phones. If you do a political poll on land-line phones, you miss those from 18 to 25, and there are figures all over the place that show there are 40 million between the ages of 18 and 29, one in five eligible voters.

<snip>

If you want a poll on the Kerry-Bush race, sit down and make up your own. It is just as good as the monstrous frauds presented on television and the newspaper first pages.

[goclark]

5. These polls are from another Planet

and the planet is called ROVE.

We have not factored in the ROVE Control of all the media and the polls.

This election is not like 2000. Rove was smart enough to put his cousins to work in all the polls this time. Slick trick.

[Gregorian]

6. IMpossible. Unless it's a nation of walking dead. And I don't believe it.

When they pry the Constitution from my cold dead hands, I'll believe it.

[The Chronicler]

11. Dead heat

Neither are at 50%

[louis c]

12. I post Premium Rasmussen Numbers Every Day

I will kick today's numbers at this time 8:11 PM EDT.

My usual post time is between 5:15-5:30

louis c