Reply #20: Oh, definitely.

[SteppingRazor]

I've mentioned them elsewhere in this thread -- Rasmussen's use of robotic calls over live operators is one big example, and as thewiseguy mentioned and I agreed with, Rasmussen also often has much smaller sample sizes than other polling firms.

One point to make here, other than the fact that Ohio is probably about tied right now, is this: While polls this far out probably don't mean a whole lot, what does matter at this point is the aggregate trend of all the polls. And in the case of Ohio, the trend indisputably favors Obama. Just check out this graph:

http://www.pollster.com/polls/oh/08-oh-pres-ge-mvo.php