Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
Yeah, 'cause a bloke who made this polling organisation was on the Bush campaign team, and there is no way he can twist data (I am only half-joking here)... The fact that conservatives always like to quote Ramsunssen does not help either. Normally people try to pick more neutral pollsters...

I mean, I think the idea of 'balanced news' is rubbish, as news reporting is naturally slanted on on or the other side, but polling organisation should always strive to be neutral. The wording of the questions is everything in a poll. Especially when people are so contradictory - most Americans cringe at large defence spending cuts, education cuts, cuts for medical research foundations, cuts for scholarships, cuts for energy subsidies (outside of US) but when asked if the favour tight budgets, they all wax lyrical on fiscal conservatism...
If you have a specific issue with Rasmussen's methods, I'm all ears. The only issue I have heard about is the claim that by polling "likely voters" instead of the general public, Rasmussen somehow gets a disproportionate amount of white people, who as a voting block, are less favorable towards Obama. Be that as it may, I believe they have been pretty accurate in past elections.

Regardless, my point was not in a specific number(it changes daily), but in the fact that there is a large percentage of people that strongly disapprove of the president, of which I am a part. Unless you have reason to believe that Rasmussen is completely off the mark on that, by more than a few percentage points either way, I think the point I was making stands.