Rasmussen Reports polls get the election really, really wrong (Washington Examiner)

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8. It's significant that it's The Washington Examiner that's saying this. Rasmussen basically

played his last card on Monday, and they knew it.

We all know what the game is with Rasmussen polls. Their job is to buck up the Republican troops by raising both hope and MONEY ...IN BETWEEN elections, by reporting fudged numbers, showing higher than actual support for Republican candidates and positions.

However, RIGHT BEFORE the election, they have to stop reporting fudged numbers and start reporting real ones, because the day after the election somebody is going to actually COMPARE their opinion polls to the actual election results. So, by switching from fake numbers to real ones the day before the election, they maintain their facade of being accurate. When, in fact, they're really a PUSH POLLING organization. (ie-dedicated to shaping public opinion and action, rather than reporting it.)

Well, they dropped that on Monday, reporting fudged numbers right up until the end, KNOWING that they might be proved wrong, and lose their credibility. But it was a last ditch effort to influence the election, and it clearly failed.

So...what to do now that their 'reputation' has been blown? I expect you'll see Rasmussen polls continue to exist, but nobody will give them any credibility anymore. But the Right Wing Noise Machine will start up another fake polling organization, employing the same gang of push-polling clowns, under another name. "American Polling Institute" or something non-partisan sounding, like that.