the typical RW bias of Rasmussen Reports.

This is a new tweet about Harris from their chief pollster's account:

Link to tweet

Reputable pollsters don't act like this.

That is insane verbiage to use if one seeks even a modicum of credibility.

One of my later graduate degrees had me taking an upper-level survey design/statistical course--one for which I was really out of place, having had a prior advanced degree and years of experience in the field. But, I pretty much just shut up until the issue of pollsters in social surveys and politics came up. I unleashed my big mouth about the bias in Rasmussen polls (and at the time Pew was having a bad moment) and gave some methodological reasons why. Well, you'd have thought I'd just gone outside to shoot the professor's Mother. A spew of RW bias came out like you wouldn't believe. Of course, this was many years ago, so the shared comments at the time probably wouldn't raise an eyebrow today, but I was shocked at how he could defend such bullshit.

But yeah, a pollster or someone working for a polling group that posts crap like that is despicable and pretty damned shocking--even today.

It's always a good idea to move about five points around. Whether it's subtracting five from the republican or adding it to the democrat. You usually get a more accurate picture.

"beating the snot out of" Harris. They've never used that or similar wording in any other tweets about polling.

The fallacy that many people agree with me is called the ad populum fallacy, also known as the bandwagon fallacy, appeal to numbers, or appeal to popularity. It occurs when someone claims something is true because many people believe it, even if they don't have an argument. People may use this fallacy to mask the fact that they don't have an argument


Voting odds are just that, people believing they can predict the future

For those going off on a poll tangent, well, there always those who misunderstand. Willfully or just stupid.

It's betting on who people think will win, not who they want to win.

Please see my OP again, all of it. This isn't about their poll numbers, which I'd never trust anyway.

It's about their describing Trump doing better than a WOC in the polls as "beating the snot out of" her, when they've never said anything similar about any other candudate.

...my post is about the fact that rasmussen is considered one of the biggest pollsters and yet this shows their true colors.

Believing Polls is dumb.

So, we can count them as part of the Trump campaign.

Their bias does relate to numbers, though, because a strongly biased poll is not a credible one.

used that or similar wording about any other candidate. As explained in my OP.

on PredictIt have it much closer, about 55-45, and we've yet to really started to fight. They've already had their convention and picked their VP, who is a disaster. At this point we have much more upside and they know it.

expression they've never used in tweets about any other candidates.

Par for the course with the RW.

but not everything is racist. And that's not.

candidate, a white male - when they've never used a similar expression in years of tweeting - it's reasonable to assume bigotry has a lot to do with it.

REALLY?

Having the head pollster trweet hat Harris gaslight everyone is okay?

lol please, stop.

And that is not.

To appeal to a violent and immature RW voter .
That’s it.
That’s all they’ve got .

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Sort of says it all.

This is a VERY bad look for a pollster. Totally shooting themselves in the foot. I wonder if someone is going to end up getting fired over this.