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Twas the perception of the financial crisis, money, and being black.
Here’s the lesson: Rasmussen was RIGHT.
I went to start spot-checking this, and the first Gallup numbers I looked at don't seem to match the graph in the original posting.
For instance, Gallup published two methodology numbers based on likely voters, the traditional and the expanded. They each looked like this according to Gallup on October 28:
The final Gallup graphs looked like this:
These don't superficially appear to me to be the same numbers in the Gallup graph in the original posting for the same dates.
It would be useful to have the data that the original postings graphs were based on so that we could see where the apparent discrepancy is coming from.