

{"id":15689,"date":"2016-06-30T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2016-06-30T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:36:01","slug":"is-rasmussen-fibbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15689","title":{"rendered":"Is Rasmussen fibbing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is poll day apparently &#8211; being the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>In the national race, Rasmussen shows <strong>Trump +4 over Hillary<\/strong>.  They didn&#8217;t include Gary Johnson (Libertarian) or the Green Party.  While nobody realistically expects Johnson to win, you can&#8217;t get an accurate poll without them as choices<\/p>\n<p>With just Trump vs Hillary:<\/p>\n<p>   Rasmusussen => has Trump +4<br \/>\n   Investor&#8217;s business daily => Hillary +4<br \/>\n   PPP               =>  Hillary +4<br \/>\n   Reuters (British) +>  Hillary +10<\/p>\n<p>Add in Johnson &#038; Stein<br \/>\n   IBD  =>   Hillary +1<br \/>\n   PPP  =>   Hillary +4<br \/>\n   Reuters =>  Hillary +11<\/p>\n<p>Reuters is not an American company and very much represents the Financial Establishment that Trump is fighting against.  I don&#8217;t trust their poll at all.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/docs\/2016\/Reuters_June_25_to_29_2016.pdf\">http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/docs\/2016\/Reuters_June_25_to_29_2016.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They start out by first asking what issues matter to you (from their list), then how Barack Obama is doing.  If I&#8217;m getting these questions, the expectation is clear.  People are not voting for Trump because of a detailed rational decision process.  Government overreach is not offered as an option.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters is polling registered voters, not likely voters.  Democrats are less likely to actually vote.  The Trump vs Hillary question doesn&#8217;t mention randomizing the answers, and Hillary is listed first.<\/p>\n<p>This poll is so incongruous with the behavior of the Republican Party, my head is hurting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is poll day apparently &#8211; being the end of the quarter. In the national race, Rasmussen shows Trump +4 over Hillary. They didn&#8217;t include Gary Johnson (Libertarian) or the Green Party. While nobody realistically expects Johnson to win, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-american-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15691,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions\/15691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}