Well, it looks like Scott Rasmussen, the veteran independent pollster, has been selected by the Democrats and their shills in the media/blogosphere for the latest two minutes hate:
Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency.
The problem, of course, is that Rasmussen is delivering all manner of bad news for the Democrats, particularly as it relates to Obamacare and the President’s approval ratings.
Thus, the Dems and their mouthpieces are accusing him of Republican bias. But Nate Silver, a polling analyst much beloved by the nutroots, isn’t going with the party line:
Rasmussen’s election polling has tended to be quite accurate in the past. Nor, incidentally, has their election polling has a particularly strong house effect in the past; it is something new to the 2010 cycle. But that’s OK; each election cycle features different dynamics in terms of turnout and motivation.
Which is probably why Rasmussen was way out in front of the pack in his prediction that the 2009 New Jersey governor’s race would produce a Republican victory. Silver continues:
Rasmussen has a different model of what the 2010 election is going to look like, one which will feature a more conservative electorate. But that model isn’t necessarily wrong, nor does it necessarily reflect bias.
Naturally, Silver assuages the tender sensibilities of his ”progressive” readership with a few perfunctory cheap shots at Fox and other Lefty hobgoblins. But he mostly plays this one straight.
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