• @mycodesucks
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    182 months ago

    Rasmussen polls always tilt a few points slightly Republican for some reason. It’s not necessarily malicious, but something in their methodology.

    • @jeffwOP
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      102 months ago

      I refuse to believe it’s not by design. They’ve known the issue for years and others have produced far less biased polling

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      They used to call landlines, which most polling outlets gave up since that will always tilt the results older/conservative.

      Not sure if that’s still their process, but with the wide gap here, i’m betting it is.

      • @jeffwOP
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        22 months ago

        I highly doubt they’d be crappy enough to keep that up. Nobody does polls like that now

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          Looks like they are still using landlines as part of their method:

          To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel.

          They claim to offset this with various corrections, but it seems landlines are the only numbers they call.

          Very much still in use.