For those who want to play the ratings game: WA-Sen is "Likely Democratic", not "tossup"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Over the weekend, using a trove of suspect polls from Republican pollsters as cover, RealClearPolitics pointlessly reclassified Washington State’s 2022 U.S. Senate between Patty Murray and Tiffany Smiley as a “tossup,” breaking ranks with every other major forecaster in the election prediction and ratings racket.

The rating change was promptly seized upon by Tiffany Smiley’s campaign as fodder for a fundraising email, with followers receiving a missive at 9:21 AM Pacific today crowing: “Friend, my Senate race is now a TOSS-UP!!! Everyone now is paying attention to this all-important race. I’ve been telling people for months that the people of Washington State are ready for a change. I knew in my gut that this could happen, but everyone counted me out.”

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Smiley’s silly emails aside, for anyone who’s wondering if RealClearPolitics is on to something that everyone else is missing, let me assure you that they’re not.

They’re simply choosing to take a bunch of Republican-commissioned and Republican-polls seriously, even though those Republicans polls are at odds with the credible independent public opinion research that’s been done in this race.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2022/10/for-those-who-want-to-play-the-ratings-game-wa-sen-is-likely-democratic-not-tossup.html

Hope I'm wrong but we may be seeing "Stop the Steal" part II

[regnaD kciN]

1. In fairness, Murray has been using it for fundraising, too...

I’ve gotten at least one e-mail and text from her campaign every day, spreading the message “Our race is now rated a TOSS-UP…we need you to chip in NOW!”