Oct
11
2010
Last week was interesting because, just as Rasmussen was detecting a bizarre shift to the Democrats in his ‘likely voter’ generic congressional ballot question (down to a +3% for the GOP), Gallup finally released its ‘likely voter‘ generic poll (two actually) showing a +13-18% GOP tsunami. It was doubly interesting since Rasmussen had been showing […]
Mar
09
2009
Everyone likes to talk about tipping points in politics. Well we may have just hit one with the pork ridden Spendulus bill, followed by the pork laden Omnibus bill, followed by the economic down turn in the markets (if the DOW is a tracking poll, public opinion is heading into the tank). The liberal spend-fest […]
Jul
28
2008
I get the feeling Obama’s small bump in the Gallup Daily Tracking poll will not last the week. I have been watching both the Gallup and Rasmussen daily polls to see how sensitive each is to the weekly news blitz. They each use very different polling methods, but over time track closely to each other. […]