Hey, have you ever noticed that if you dressed Scott Rasmussen in Tea Party garb, he’d look exactly like the guy on the Quaker Oats box?
On a more serious note, we’re sad to say this is our final volume of Rasmussen Reports, You Decide. Nobody here enjoys the mind-numbing, Hercules-cleaning-the-stables task of putting them together (and that only looks to get worse, with the demoralizing news that they plan to further up their output as election season progresses). But rather than jettisoning Rasmussen entirely (tempting as it may be), we’re just going to start doing what Steve Singiser at Daily Kos already wisely does with “Ras-A-Poll-Ooza,” which is to eat the elephant in bite-sized chunks and keep each day’s Rasmussen polls in their own little containment pool at the end of each day’s digest. If you’re even more obsessive than us, and you absolutely need to know trendlines, sample dates, the breakdown between “Some Other” and “Not Sure,” or MoEs, well, you probably already know where Pollster.com is.
• AZ-Gov: Terry Goddard (D) 35%, Jan Brewer (R-inc) 53%
• FL-Sen: Kendrick Meek (D) 15%, Marco Rubio (R) 36%, Charlie Crist (I) 34%
• FL-Sen: Jeff Greene (D) 18%, Marco Rubio (R) 37%, Charlie Crist (I) 33%
• HI-Gov: Neil Abercrombie (D) 58%, Duke Aiona (R) 32%
• HI-Gov: Mufi Hannemann (D) 52%, Duke Aiona (R) 30%
• HI-Gov: Neil Abercrombie (D) 59%, John Carroll (R) 30%
• HI-Sen: Dan Inouye (D-inc) 68%, John Roco (R) 20%
• IL-Sen: Alexi Giannoulias (D) 40%, Mark Kirk (R) 39%
• KS-Gov: Tom Holland (D) 31%, Sam Brownback (R) 59%
• KS-Sen: David Haley (D) 25%, Jerry Moran (R) 60%
• KS-Sen: Lisa Johnston (D) 25%, Jerry Moran (R) 61%
• KS-Sen: Charles Schollenberger (D) 25%, Jerry Moran (R) 59%
• KS-Sen: Robert Conroy (D) 23%, Jerry Moran (R) 60%
• KS-Sen: David Haley (D) 27%, Todd Tiahrt (R) 58%
• KS-Sen: Lisa Johnston (D) 29%, Todd Tiahrt (R) 57%
• KS-Sen: Charles Schollenberger (D) 30%, Todd Tiahrt (R) 55%
• KS-Sen: Robert Conroy (D) 29%, Todd Tiahrt (R) 53%
• KY-Sen: Jack Conway (D) 42%, Rand Paul (R) 49%
• LA-Sen: Charlie Melancon (D) 36%, David Vitter (R-inc) 52%
• MO-Sen: Robin Carnahan (D) 43%, Roy Blunt (R) 48%
• NC-Sen: Elaine Marshall (D) 37%, Richard Burr (R) 52%
• NY-Gov: Andrew Cuomo (D) 55%, Rick Lazio (R) 28%
• NY-Gov: Andrew Cuomo (D) 55%, Carl Paladino (R) 25%
• OH-Gov: Ted Strickland (D-inc) 40%, John Kasich 47%
• OH-Sen: Lee Fisher (D) 39%, Rob Portman (R) 43%
• OK-Gov: Drew Edmondson (D) 39%, Mary Fallin (R) 48%
• OK-Gov: Drew Edmondson (D) 44%, Robert Hubbard (R) 31%
• OK-Gov: Drew Edmondson (D) 46%, Randy Brogden (R) 35%
• OK-Gov: Drew Edmondson (D) 45%, Roger Jackson (R) 29%
• OK-Gov: Jari Askins (D) 32%, Mary Fallin (R) 55%
• OK-Gov: Jari Askins (D) 38%, Randy Brogden (R) 47%
• OK-Gov: Jari Askins (D) 38%, Robert Hubbard (R) 43%
• OK-Gov: Jari Askins (D) 40%, Roger Jackson (R) 42%
• OK-Sen: Mark Myles (D) 27%, Tom Coburn (R-inc) 62%
• OK-Sen: Jim Rogers (D) 26%, Tom Coburn (R-inc) 65%
• PA-Gov: Dan Onorato (D) 39%, Tom Corbett (R) 49%
• PA-Sen: Joe Sestak (D) 39%, Pat Toomey (R) 45%
• UT-Gov: Peter Corroon (D) 31%, Gary Herbert (R-inc) 58%
• WY-Gov: Mike Massie (D) 22%, Matt Mead (R) 49%
• WY-Gov: Leslie Peterson (D) 23%, Rita Meyer (R) 51%
• WY-Gov: Leslie Peterson (D) 28%, Colin Simpson (R) 44%
• WY-Gov: Leslie Peterson (D) 27%, Ron Micheli (R) 47%
• WY-Gov: Pete Gosar (D) 23%, Matt Mead (R) 51%
• WY-Gov: Pete Gosar (D) 23%, Rita Meyer (R) 52%
• WY-Gov: Pete Gosar (D) 24%, Colin Simpson (R) 51%
• WY-Gov: Pete Gosar (D) 28%, Ron Micheli (R) 46%
Now that I think about it, if Scotty was to dress up in Tea Party garb, he would be the Quaker Oats dude.
Your comment has me laughing uncontrollably…security is about to escort me out the door.
I’m managing the Kansas Gov race. We saw that “poll,” a friend who pays for the “crosstabs” sent them to me, and we broke out laughing. They’re not really crosstabs, because they only show how each demographic answered a question, but they don’t show what share of the whole that demographic represents. In other words, you know how voters 18-29 answered a question, but you don’t know if they’re 1% of the overall sample or 99% of the overall sample.
But, whoo whee, the results were hilarious. According to Rasmussen, 100% of Kansas voters between the ages of 18 and 29 want to repeal the health care reform bill, and 100% of these same under-thirty voters strongly disapprove of the job being done by Barack Obama.
Just in case you thought you read that wrong, 100% of voters under thirty in the KS Gov poll strongly disapprove of Barack Obama’s job performance.
Riiiiight…
[What was interesting, however, is that Rasmussen had Tom Holland beating Brownback among self-identified moderates 47-42. If we beat Brownback among moderates 47-42, we probably win.]
I can tell you- those Ohio numbers are a joke.
I would love to see numbers for those two races. I’m guessing IN-Sen is a Lean R and WI-Gov is a Likely R at this point, though I’m interested to see if Tom Barrett can actually consolidate Democrats in the Badger State, since based on previous numbers there’s still a lot of undecideds out there.
Kirk is in big trouble. I think the Dems will hold this seat.
Manchin 53 Capito 39
Manchin 65 Ireland 26
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You guys seem to have done your research better than some of the other firms out there. Get rid of the Democratic bias and you’d be the ideal replacement for Research 2000.
I’d go even further: just post a link to Steve Singiser’s (almost daily) Ras-A-Poll-Ooza diaries as he writes them, and call it a day.
If he likes to be a masochist and type them up, so be it
(BTW, I stopped reading your “Rasmussen Reports” diaries many many volumes ago. I’m really not sure what caused me to click on this one to learn that it would be the final edition).