Why doesn't this site have links to the bias analysis. Are we just supposed to take it on faith that the partisan bias numbers posted here are correct?

Click on the number next to "Polls Conducted" and it will show you the analysis....

Rasmussen's final projection was pretty good this year. The Pew poll, POS and CBS were also good. Zogby, Fox and others were way off.

Agreed, especially Zogby.

Zogby was okay. He had Bush winning the popular by a small margin. Zogby's numbers were in the middle of the pack.

At 5 PM on Tuesday Zogby said Kerry would win 311 electoral votes, which goes to show that the new version of Diebolds worked better than ever.

At 5 PM on Tuesday Zogby said Kerry would win 311 electoral votes, which goes to show that the new version of Diebolds worked better than ever. Zogby was going of off Exit Poll Data and furthermore he always says something that is usually contradictory to his polls. His national polls were once again reliable but his statwide polls were once again horrible.

SUSA and Rasmussen seemed to be close. Prags article above seemed pretty accurate about Zogby. He was an idiot for relying so heavily on exit polling to make his final prediction given the history of exit polling in 2002 and 2000.

Rasmussen has taken to reporting poll results without leaners as their headline results and then including leaners in the copy. Please note that we prefer polls with leaners included to the the ones entered into the site if they are available.

Poor Rasmussen released their latest FOX Battleground polls and their website promptly went down.

Hey Randy, I have a query regarding the partisan bias figures. With 1500 polls (and really any polling firm with 50 or more), the partisan bias will mathematically just flatten out. Is there anyway to show partisan bias for a certain time frame or say for the last 50-100 polls?

So, despite the Rasmussen Reports website stating that "Scott [Rasmussen] maintains his independence and has never been a campaign pollster or consultant for candidates seeking office" (repeated verbatim with no apparent fact checking in the recent Politico article on Rasmussen), some fairly light research has uncovered that Scott Rasmussen has in fact conducted polling on behalf of partisan clients, in particular the RNC and the Bush re-election campaign, both during 2003-04. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/putting-r-in-rasmussen.html

I'm a little puzzled. Why would Rasmussen after many recent years of being very accurate suddenly be a Republican puppet?

Why would Rasmussen after many recent years of being very accurate suddenly be a Republican puppet? Because the Soros butt boy blogs have instructions to call Rasmussen a Republican puppet and to have their minions spread the word far and wide.

Even worse, Scott Rasmussen co-founded ESPN with his father. Surely SportsCenter is just another O'Reilly Factor masquerading as a "news" program.

Even worse, Scott Rasmussen co-founded ESPN with his father. And (to stray off-topic) he was something like the third or fourth person to appear on that network (I've seen the first broadcast at Paley Center, and remember his presence).

Even worse, Scott Rasmussen co-founded ESPN with his father. Okay, now Rasmussen has lost credibility w/me.

This being a non-partisan polling firm is questionable.

From KOs. If you think that every other poll released this year has been either a Rasmussen poll or a Republican poll, you’re awfully close to being right. Steve Singiser has catalogued nearly a thousand polls, and thinks the saturation of GOP-friendly sources could be skewing analysis of the 2010 cycle. Again it's from Kos so grain of salt.

Why aren't more Dems releasing polls?

Because the poll numbers suck for the Dems. Kos is right, there are way more polls being released from GOP and GOP-leaning outfits, but it's because Dem candidates and Dem-leaning outfits don't want to release numbers. Jim Geraghty over at National Review went through the filing reports earlier in the year and found that a ton (like 50 or 60) of incumbent Dems reported spending on internal polls but only a handful released them. I'm sure the Dem-leaning outfits are finding the same bad numbers and also don't want to release them. PPP is rare that they don't apparently care and will just try their best to spin numbers no matter how bad they look.

Like I said. grain of salt :)

Rasmussen seems to be very quiet this election season. What gives? At this point in 2010, they were one of if not the most prolific polling firm for Governor, Senate and popular vote polls.

They suck nuts.