You have to wonder what the 10% response rate does to the final product. Hasn’t there been strong suspicion that Rasmussen tacks so as not to appear an outlier?
“You have to wonder what the 10% response rate does to the final product. “
Well, ponder this, then. I mentioned to a conservative business-owner friend of mine that I totally dodge all political and polling calls, and he said he did the same thing. So we briefly discussed if this might be a trend among conservatives in general, and we thought that might be possible. And then he added that in conversations with some of he liberals he has to deal with that they made a point of exclaiming how eager they were to make their opinions known to the pollsters. So, now you may have a trend of conservatives dodging the pollsters and the liberals eagerly taking their calls. It really makes you wonder how accurate some of these polls really are.