Romney takes the lead in Florida in first post-debate poll there

[Blue Yorker]

Was Obama+2% in a mid-September Rasmussen poll.

Is Romney +2 now.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/florida/election_2012_florida_president

[winstars]

1. Ras is on crack!!! n/t

[JRLeft]

2. Polls had showed Florida trending toward Romney.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

3. SUCCKERS

[dennis4868]

4. Rasmussen

Also has Romney in the lead in VA and Obama only a slight lead in OH. I honestly don't know what to think of Rasmussen. I'm told they are not reliable. I have no clue.

[openminded56]

5. Fallout

This is just a bump for Romney. Thank God we don't elect our President by their debate performance.

[HERVEPA]

6. Are you delighting in posting these polls. You don't seem very upset.

[Blue Yorker]

9. Neither do most people replying

All I see is smiley faces and non-upset replies. You don't seem upset either. Fail, my friend.

[Aerows]

27. I don't think anyone believes Romney will win

Except Romney and Romney supporters, which are thin even on the Republican side, my friend. You see smiley faces because the Romney camp seems to think that he went through one debate and one week without a gaffe that he is hitting a home run.

Let me tell you something, my friend, when a good race is because you didn't trip over the hurdles, throw up on the judges, and crap your drawers... you aren't in a very good position.

[Blue Yorker]

31. That made no sense

" when a good race is because you didn't trip over the hurdles."

Grammar?

[HERVEPA]

30. Kind of give yourself away with the "my friend"

[Blue Yorker]

32. Huh?

Explain your strange reasoning. Do you have nothing else to say, my friend?

[HERVEPA]

33. Mitt Romney's favorite end of sentence when he's saying something smarmy.

[oviedodem]

7. No shock to me. I live in this state and there is a lot of hate here. I have predicted that BO

will win 281 - 257

Without: Florida, NC, Va, or CO. He MUST win Ohio and according to Ras its only a 3 point spread.

[sadbear]

10. Ras has a tendency of getting more accurate as he gets closer to the election.

This fits his MO.

[Blue Yorker]

23. You mean the last week?

The last two weeks? three weeks?

[sadbear]

25. Yep.

All three. Just watch. It'll happen. Ras will be pretty damn close on election day, but a month out, like today, he has time to play. Talk about cooking the books, indeed.

[dawg]

11. So, in other words the President is still 4 points ahead.

This is Rasmussen, so you have to add 6. (Until the final week, which is when he starts moving to "actual&quot

[Blue Yorker]

12. There is no evidence that Rasmussen straighten things out on the final week

If so, can we see it?

[dawg]

18. Here's some discussion of Rasmussen's potential bias.

Certainly, he's an outlier when compared to other pollsters. I don't think there is any evidence in my links to indicate that he straightens things out closer to the election, but it only makes sense that he wouldn't want to miss the final result by a mile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Info/rasmussen.html

[Blue Yorker]

19. I don't trust Rasmussen. I just don't buy the "last week straightening-out" theory

Because it's not born out by evidence of poll archives.

That said, I think Rasmussen has a pro-GOP lead, and he sucked in 2010.

[LiberalAndProud]

13. Wake me when it's not rassmussen.

I don't reject the bad news, I reject the source. Rasmussen embellishes.

[AtomicKitten]

14. LOL. rASSmussen

[L0oniX]

15. +1

[okieinpain]

16. will the repugs call these polls bad, I doubt it, lol. n/t.

[L0oniX]

17. I have been phone bombed with poll takers and every time I tell them I am a...

republican ...then when they ask me who I plan to vote for I say Obama. Fuck them!

[outsideworld]

28. I literally Thought there was a bug on my laptop screen

[DefenseLawyer]

20. Is that skewed or unskewed? n/t

[MFM008]

21. ?????

Nate Silver said Rasss numbers can be off 8 points. skewed to GOP.

[Indpndnt]

22. Rasmussen? Really?

What's next? Unskewed polls dot com?

[porphyrian]

24. I'm sure it is entirely unrelated to the federal judge allowing the voter purge to continue...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021478909

[dkf]

26. I won't believe that til I see it elsewhere.

Sorry but Ras is suspect.

[B Calm]

29. When I see what poll, I'm cracking up!

Fucking Rasmussen is a damn joke and everybody here knows it!