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To: The_Reader_David
Reweighting polls with skewed samples (that provide enough internals to allow this) can lead to a more accurate result. However, I’m not certain that unskewedpolls.com’s use of Rasmussen’s August 2012 party affiliation data as weights isn’t too extreme a correction, leading to too rosy a picture of GOP prospects this fall.

I agree. It's a little suspicious when Rasmussen part-ID weighting when applied to these other polls gives Rasmussen a significantly larger advantage than Rasmussen's own poll, which recently has had had Romney down a point or two.

It would seem that these "unskewed" polls are doing a bit of over-correction.
23 posted on 09/25/2012 10:04:48 AM PDT by AaronInCarolina
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To: AaronInCarolina

The above should read:

“gives Romney a significantly larger advantage than Rasmussen’s own poll, “


24 posted on 09/25/2012 10:10:19 AM PDT by AaronInCarolina
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