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Originally Posted by The Reaper
If you read through the Rasmussen website, there is a logic to the way they do polls.
He is interviewing "likely voters". People with strong opinions are most likely to vote. People who merely approve or disapprove, or who are undecided, are less likely. He does report the total approve vs. disapprove as well. The other pollsters usually report "Americans", which allows them to include people who have not voted and likely will not vote.
He also differs from the others when determining the representative make-up of the parties. The other major polls take the respondents and adjust for national declared party identification, usually inflating the Dims' numbers, due to greater Repub defections to Independent declared voters and neglecting the fact that a greater percentage of Repubs usually vote.
Read his entire article.
TR
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I did TR,and regardless of what the polls say,I still think as a POTUS he's "honey coated dung".............. 
Big Teddy 
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Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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