Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly

On Tuesday, polls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports — which released more than 100 surveys in the final three weeks of the campaign, including some commissioned under a subsidiary on behalf of Fox News — badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates. Full Story »

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by Joey Baker - Nov. 5, 2010

A great look at how accurate all the poll numbers actually are. The kicker is the graph that shows that none of the polls are within a high level of statistical accuracy (all of a margin of error of over 3%).

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