Rasmussen Phone Poll (plea to "Digg this")

[ACJohn]

I got to vote for RP in a phone poll !!! Had to pick other candidate then RP was a choice, but he was on there. Missed the name of the poll Rasmusin ??

John


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[brumans]

What do you mean you had to pick other candidate?

Was it like:

Who would you pick as the republican nominee?

Press 1 for Rudy Giuliani
Press 2 for Mitt Romney
Press 3 for Fred Thompson
Press 4 for John McCain
Press 5 for other candidates

[ACJohn]

yes press 7 for other and RP was the first arfter that. Sad to say Huchabee was listed as # 6 before other.

[undergroundrr]

If so, what an enterprising way to ensure that the top tier candidates get more "scientific" votes.

[ItsTime]

Originally Posted by undergroundrr

If so, what an enterprising way to ensure that the top tier candidates get more "scientific" votes.

how can it be scientific if the choices are not in alphabetical order?

[ghemminger]

finally - I hope it was gallop

[transistor]

there are 12 buttons on a phone... unless they listed both republicans and democrats, there's no reason paul shouldn't be listed

[Grandson of Liberty]

The only thing scientific about a scientific poll is the science behind how to manipulate them.

[ACJohn]

This was the name they used

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/

[stevedasbach]

Originally Posted by ACJohn

yes press 7 for other and RP was the first arfter that. Sad to say Huchabee was listed as # 6 before other.

THAT explains why all the "second tier" candidates except Huckabee do so poorly in the Rasmussin polls. This methodology is STRONGLY BIASED against all the candidates lumped under other.

Could you please share this story with the editors at pollster.com? They write stories explaining why some polls give different results than others and attack bad polling methodology. If they do a story about this, we can use it attack Rasmussin poll results.