The Rasmussen Poll
In 2010, Rasmussen was rated by Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com as the most inaccurate and biased major polling organization. This year, Rasmussen continues to produce results that appear to skew in a Republican direction and this is certainly true of Rasmussen’s polling on party identification.
At the beginning of every month, Rasmussen reports its monthly results on the distribution of party identification in the entire American voting age population based on some 15,000 interviews. So far this year, Rasmussen has reported a Republican advantage in party identification every single month from January through July. The Republican advantage has ranged between 1 point and 3 points with an average of 2 points.
Rasmussen is the only polling organization to show a Republican advantage in party identification this year. Although Rasmussen has never explained how they identify likely voters from their initial sample of the voting age population, one can only assume that their presidential preference results among likely voters reflect the Republican skew of their initial sample of voting age adults.
Keep drinking the Kool-Ade fellas.