Rasmussen daily graph for 4/6/08 - Obama down 1(50), Clinton up 1 (42)

[DavidDvorkin]

Oh noes! She catching up! Thksby.








(Pretend that the 10 and 20 lines are actually 0. Does anyone know how to make Excel label different parts of the axis differently?)

Gallup: http://www.gallup.com/

These Rasmussen graphs are all contained on one Web page at http://www.dvorkin.com/rastrack.html

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Data in tabular form
Discussion

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Released very early, this morning

I wonder if this will be the new schedule for Rasmussen.

Perhaps the processing of data has been outsourced to India, so it's done during our night!

[DemVet]

2. Your Gallup link doesn't work.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Oops! Thanks. Fixed.

Dumb typo. I was hurrying because I was so concerned with being the first one to get the Ras numbers up, and because I was so excited, and because I went to bed too late, and because I was dodging sniper fire.

Or possibly it was carelessness.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. This morning's excitement is strangely muted

Acknowledgment of inevitability must be spreading.

[rodeodance]

14. The "nevitability" is a media myth--that only sheepie repeat.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. At some point, in almost every primary season, it become real

And not just a media myth. They only question, then, is whether we've reached that point in this primary season.

At the very least, the road ahead for one candidate gets so steep that it's probably insurmountable. I do think that Hillary has reached that point.

[Perry Logan]

5. Democrats are not falling in line with the view that Hillary is evil. We need to step up our smears.

[FARAFIELD]

6. Its not stop the smears

She is trying to gain a nomination not worth having (my words if she needs to get it by destroying Obama), she will also drive up her negatives and reinforce views people already have of her. Nobody disputes she is trying the kitchen sink strategy, we all know it. She cries electibility, yet she is sacraficing the one number (her negatives) that she can improve on. I said before the primaries that she had a low floor and low ceiling. If she wins she cant win by more than 1%, AND THATS IF NOTHING GOES WRONG. a fair assesment tells me that if I were to wake up the day after the election and a candidate had won with 54% or so, its going to be OBAMA he is the more optimistic candidate. Like they said on the playground, she started it. If hillary can kiss ass with Scaife and fox news, who are the mortal enemies of DU and come in here and not expect criticism. Then she is not worthy of the nomination

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Yes, I agree

I fear that if she does win, it will be by a narrow margin, and she'll have no coattails.

That would raise the specter of Republican control of Congress again, either after 2008 or after 2010.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Heck, I don't think she's evil

I just think that she'd lose in November.

I have been very disappointed in both her and Bill during this campaign. I supported him during his first primary and thought he was one of our great presidents. At the time, I liked the idea of Hillary as president -- probably right after Gore's eight years in the White House. My disillusionment with both Clintons has been all the greater because I once liked and supported them.

[rodeodance]

9. of course---most are not out to smear her like here on DU. They are not sheep

[rodeodance]

8. R E C

[ingac70]

10. Rassmusen showing Obama ahead?

That's a shocker.

GOBAMA!

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Rasmussen is an evil Republican shill. Didn't you know?

So is Gallup, now. Or so I've heard.

[MadBadger]

20. Rasmussen actually is.

You ever wonder why it always appears on Drudge first? Also Rasmussen only seems to go on Fox News. I wonder why? Its because he is a RW shill. But that doesnt mean not to trust their poll numbers, though I rely on gallup more than I do rasmussen.

[DavidDvorkin]

22. What I've said from time to time is that a bias doesn't matter if it's consistent

Because then the trends are still meaningful.

[rodeodance]

12. K

[Frank Booth]

16. You're kicking a poll showing an 8 point deficit?!

You're really a glass half full person, aren't you?

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[DavidDvorkin]

18. It's hard to know what a pro-Republican bias would mean for the primary

Isn't it? Would such a bias favor Clinton or Obama? or neither?

[totodeinhere]

21. I guess they would favor whoever they think would be easier to beat in November.

But I'm not sure if they have figured out yet who that would be.

[DavidDvorkin]

23. There is that aspect, true

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Gallup: Obama 49, Clinton 46

Obama unchanged, Clinton up 2.