Obama pulls slightly ahead in crazy Rasmussen tracking poll

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Shaping

Rasmussen's goal isn't to gauge or report public opinion so much as to shape it. They are no different than pollsters for particular campaigns. They only adjust their results close to election time as to appear accurate, but the next 5 months will be blatant distortion of polls in order to boost Romney and motivate the GOP base.

The Romney bounce from winning the nomination is over, he'll fall behind a little more now before he get the bounce from picking a running mate. He's going to get embarrassed in the debates either way, so it's not like these polls matter either way right now.