Rasmussen has Bush at 49!% approval

[bigdarryl]

You got to be kidding me this idiot in the whitehouse has a job approval at 49%. i think Rasmussen polls are skewed in favor of the Republicans.

[Rick Myers]

1. Don't tell the White House...

Cheney will be out 'hunting' every day!!!

[frustrated_lefty]

2. He gets a bump for getting through the weekend

without shooting anyone in the face.

[rzemanfl]

3. No shit. Assmssen assmunchin, whatever, they are up Dubyah's

rectum to their neckline.

[DemInDistress]

4. that might be 49% of repukes polled...not good..nt

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. A 10% bump in two days?

What happened to the 39% that was reported late last week?

[jlchavis0844]

6. Rasmussen

Their polls were right on during the 04 election. They seems pretty down the middle to me.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. Even Gallup shows him far lower, and we know they're skewed!

And the 04 vote only matched the polls after 11pm when they 'adjusted' them.

[Coexist]

16. LOL!

You are too funny. Enjoy your stay at DU.

[Vinnie From Indy]

20. LOL! Welcome! I hope you learn something while you are here!

eom

[jsamuel]

7. Uh, yeah, Rass is no where near unbiased

they use like 41% repubs, 26% Dems, and 33% Independents

[IowaGuy]

19. Rass tends to push his polls in the repuke direction....

up until election day or the day before, then tightens things up and comes back closer to the concensus of the rest of the polls. Still a good source, if for nothing else, to get a really good picture on how repukes are framing things, by looking at the structure of his questions.

Out this far from any election, I wouldn't trust any single poll of his, but rather look @ long term trends...

[NanceGreggs]

8. Do you think?????!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

This idiot couldn't get a 49% approval rating right now if they'd limited the 'survey' to REPUBLICANS ONLY!!!!!!!

[Initech]

9. Poll is definately biased.

[papau]

10. Today It is 48% approve to 50% disapprove - but all other polls are at 40%

Bush Job Approval
Approve Disapprove
Today 48 50
Feb 13 49 50
Feb 12 49 50
Feb 11 48 52
Feb 10 47 52
Feb 9 47 52
Feb 8 48 51
Feb 7 47 52
Feb 6 45 54
Feb 5 44 54
Feb 4 45 54
Feb 3 46 53
Feb 2 47 52
Feb 1 48 51
Dates are release dates. Surveys conducted on preceding three nights.

[meisje]

11. after 17 posts, you should learn to post some proof of your claim

[last_texas_dem]

12. Definitely an outlier result

Republican Rasmussen must be doing what they can to compensate for that atypically low poll result from Gallup the other day.

[bluestateguy]

13. I trust Fox News polls much more

Fox News polls tend to either be in tandem with all of the other polls, or maybe a point or two higher for Bush. The way in which Fox's anchors interpret the polls, however, is another matter. They spin bad polls for him, or just ignore bad polls all together, or just quietly dump them on an obscure corner of their website.

Rasmussen is not even on my radar screen. Never has been.

But please, by all means, if the Right wants to pretend like its still 2001 and delude themselves into thinking that George W. Bush is a popular wartime president, then I have better things to do.

[tritsofme]

21. Polls sponsored by Fox get a bad rep around here.

For obvious reasons.

But there is absolutely nothing wrong with Opinion Dynamics, the polling company that conducts their polls.

If anything, Opinion Dynamics skewed too far toward Democrats in 2004.

[bluestateguy]

22. I heard that Fox's pollster, John Gorman, is a Democrat

The problem is not their polls, it's how the bobbleheads on Fox News SPIN the polls: playing up polls that are good for Bush, or ignoring or spinning polls that are bad for him.

[jackbourassa]

14. You think???

Gallup at 39% Rassmussen at 49%. Somehow I don't think so.

Rassmussen has had a lot of polls skewing towards the Republicans lately.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Rasmussen's numbers are well above the average.

Check out this page for some comparison:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls.html

I've noticed that Rasmussen always shows Bush's approval ratings at least 5 points higher than most other polls.

[MadisonProgressive]

18. MOE is + or - 49 points

[katty]

23. that's 49 people

[Odin2005]

24. It is very easy to skew the poll numbers by how the question is worded.

A poll saying "should X get more funding" will get more yes votes then "should X get more funding if it requires a tax increase".

[Ignacio Upton]

25. Rasmussen is pretty reliable with the state elections

But they give too much support to Bush in his job approval. Has he ever been below 40% in Rasmussen?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

26. Even Charlie Cook disregards Rasmussen polls

Believes his methodology is flawed and Cook won't even include Rasmussen polls in determining averages.

[Rainscents]

27. Rasmussen poll is Extreme right wing Christan heck!

Give me a break! Thees people think, they we are going to buy into their full of shit poll?

[AlCzervik]

28. Um it's Rassmussen--deduct at least 7 points from the apporval #

[IDemo]

29. When pigs fly and quail don't

[AX10]

30. Fox News has him at 41%.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

31. Bullshit it's 39%. And that's being generous. n/t

[NuttyFluffers]

32. Rasmussen = "Crack Smoker" in statistical polling speak.