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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVicious wording, probably racist and misogynistic, in a tweet from Rasmussen Reports about Kamala Harris
PLEASE NOTE, since some people are apparently misreading my OP:
This ISN'T about the poll numbers Rasmussen cites.
It's about their using nasty, violent wording for Harris - saying Trump was "beating the snot out of" her - that a search showed they had NEVER used before on Twitter for any other candidate. See my comments directly below the tweet about the search I did.
Link to tweet
@Rasmussen_Poll
Anyone who wonders whether to believe polls like ours, with Trump beating the snot out of Harris, or those with Harris slightly up... know this:
The betting odds haven't changed:
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I did a search on Twitter for tweets from Rasmussen Reports, a search going back years, for any other tweets using the keywords beating or beat with snot or crap or shit, to find any variations of this sort of vicious wording.
No other examples of this.
Rasmussen Reports has been going downhill for years. But they really crossed a line here.
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hlthe2b
(104,704 posts)highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)the typical RW bias of Rasmussen Reports.
This is a new tweet about Harris from their chief pollster's account:
Link to tweet
@Mark_R_Mitchell
Our boring Kamala Harris polling on YouTube is going viral right now.
Why?
Probably because one of the biggest gaslighting operations ever is happening right now
obamanut2012
(27,291 posts)Reputable pollsters don't act like this.
Sympthsical
(9,827 posts)That is insane verbiage to use if one seeks even a modicum of credibility.
hlthe2b
(104,704 posts)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.
TlalocW
(15,549 posts)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.
highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)"beating the snot out of" Harris. They've never used that or similar wording in any other tweets about polling.
obamanut2012
(27,291 posts)RAB910
(3,795 posts)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
highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,161 posts)For those going off on a poll tangent, well, there always those who misunderstand. Willfully or just stupid.
Think. Again.
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Diraven
(827 posts)It's betting on who people think will win, not who they want to win.
highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)Think. Again.
(14,902 posts)obamanut2012
(27,291 posts)highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)Think. Again.
(14,902 posts)highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)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.
Think. Again.
(14,902 posts)...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.
wnylib
(23,503 posts)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.
uponit7771
(91,048 posts)obamanut2012
(27,291 posts)highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)used that or similar wording about any other candidate. As explained in my OP.
radius777
(3,767 posts)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.
highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)expression they've never used in tweets about any other candidates.
radius777
(3,767 posts)Par for the course with the RW.
highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)Goodheart
(5,760 posts)but not everything is racist. And that's not.
highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)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.
obamanut2012
(27,291 posts)REALLY?
Having the head pollster trweet hat Harris gaslight everyone is okay?
lol please, stop.
Goodheart
(5,760 posts)And that is not.
obamanut2012
(27,291 posts)obamanut2012
(27,291 posts)dweller
(24,413 posts)To appeal to a violent and immature RW voter .
Thats it.
Thats all theyve got .
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bullimiami
(13,683 posts)hlthe2b
(104,704 posts)Sort of says it all.
onecaliberal
(34,932 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(8,652 posts)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.