Rasmussen To Stop Polling Clinton Questions

National polling firm Rasmussen Reports announced on Friday that it will stop polling people about the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, will win the Democratic nomination.

The company's vice president of finance and operations, Michael Boniello, distributed an e-mail stating that after 19 months of tracking the Democratic race, it is now clear that Clinton will remain a close second.

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[GeorgeKaplan]

Pollsters have the power to determine when an election in the Untied Sates is over... who knew.

[Raymondf]

Still leading in West Virginia by 40%, and Kentucky 35% and So. Dakota by 10% now was 9%

[abby4ever]

How many superdelegates does Obama have now---and why do the different news outlets all have different totals?

[GravitonX]

The Clinton campaign is delusional. They're looking for Hillary's running mate. Sad. They'll probably hold a separate inauguration for her, too, in which Hillary will wear her favorite Princess outfit. Don't forget the tiara. LOL!

[royber]

Why not, theres no sense in beating a dead horse...

[useyourbrain]

because 50% or more of dems still support HRC, fool.

Rasmussen is a RNC cover anyway -- they have been wrong so many times it doesn't matter. They cannot poll correctly if they omit HRC from the questions -- it would be a meaningless poll. No discussion on this one.

[eurydice]

They're a shootin' !

The upside of this, is Hillary might finally get to experience real sniper fire.

[jrterrier]

Happy Mother's Day to one and all.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/mothersday/?sc=1847&utm_source=1847&utm_medium=e

[Raymondf]

I'm not a Mother but thanks anyway.

[jrterrier]

has anyone seen anything on this?

HUGE NC Vote MisCount Favored Obama
by internetstar, Fri May 09, 2008 at 06:39:47 PM EST

In at least one county, ballots were counted twice for Obama.
They gave him 15,000 extra votes.

"MECKLENBURG & WAKE COUNTIES -- Vote tallies are changing in the state's two largest counties, after certain ballots were counted twice in Mecklenburg and Wake counties.

The mistake didn't change the outcome of any elections, but it is a cause for concern to election directors.

For example, when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama declared victory Tuesday night in North Carolina's primary, he was given approximately 15,000 votes more than he should have been.

That's 1 percent of all ballots cast.

In Wake County, early and absentee ballots were counted as part of the individual voters precincts and again as a whole.

"So in essence, those voters were recorded double," said Cherie Poucher of the Wake Co. Board of Elections. It was around 37,000 votes.

In Mecklenburg County, only absentee ballots - 2,400 in all - were doubled. "It doesn't change any of the results," said Michael Dickerson of the Mecklenburg Co. Board of Elections. "All the winners are still the winners."

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

Change Chicago Style

[eXcommunicate]

And "experience" New York style. Why don't you ask those precinct captains in Harlem about how Obama got 0 (zero) votes in their predominantly black districts?

[Obamamo]

Gotta give you this one. You don't give up, do you?

[eurydice]

Who's this Clinton you're talking about?

[useyourbrain]

She's the one that will break her back working to elect a dem president in this campaign -- herself or Obama, that's who.

Ignore her and her supporters and Obama can't win. Remember, these are primaries and not the general elections -- no caucuses in the general -- real votes and most of those states Obama won have never and will never vote Democratic.

[abby4ever]

She;s your worst nightmare if you cross her.

[leftoflennon]

OK, that was funny !

[mrmemory]

I find it comforting to know that polling companies, big media, and all these moronic commentators have now assumed the role of the American electorate in determining the outcome of our nominating process. It's so much easier this way, isn't it?

[Grunty1]

The nomination process would have been decided weeks ago if the media wasn't artificially inflating Clinton's campaign and realistic chances of winning.

[Aleka4]

Are you really this obtuse?

She has lost, it is already decided. The American electorate chose Obama. They chose him 2 months ago and it is actually a FLAW in the msm that nobody noticed until now.

Stop playing some kind of victim. When a playoff hockey team loses abest of 7 series 4-2 does the losing team cry foul that they don't play the last game? Get real.

[eurydice]

Perfect analogy.

[ntmessage]

Frankly, Rasmussen is only doing this to curry favor with the Obama campaign since the latest data now shows more definitively that Clinton likely beats McCain and Obama likely loses in the general.

An inconvenient truth that the Obama campaign wants to remove from the debate and public discourse.

[jacklambert]

Perhaps Rasmussen should attempt the impossible and ask how many DON'T do polls.
MSM manipulates polls because thats all they have to go on. Thats why I don't do them.

Perhaps thats why the MSM is looking so 'shaky' just now. Their credibility is down the toilet and becoming known as the most 'unreliable sources'

[CapitalistRebel]

If polls taken 5 months in advance of an election meant anything, then Dukakis and Kerry would have won.

Hillary LOST the primary. She's broke. Accept reality.

[useyourbrain]

In June of 1992 Bill Clinton was running a distant 3rd after Perot and Bush and look what happened. Strange thing about polls, they change as do circumstance and another Rev. Wright outburst, an examination of BO's political life in Chicago and Michelle's anti-white rants in her graduate thesis, etc. And the fact that the USA is still a racist and sexist coutnry (as the Obamatons have shown), means that the RNC running his full name, his ethnic name, his very picture will be enough to scare a lot of the white folk into voting RNC in a year when they should be out of all government offices. Not a racist here, just observing facts over the years. Obama will be the Dukakis of the 21st century.

[reflective]

Uh you might wanna think about the possibility they consider it to be a waste of money. Just a thought.

[Aleka4]

Yea its all just a conspiracy.

Are you for real?

[jrterrier]

look at all the latest polls. not only is hillary ahead of obama in the national polls but she polls better than obama when matched against mccain. t

he powers that be rammed W down our throats in 2000, when they mercilessly ripped Gore appart and didn't accurately report what was going on in FL. now they are doing it again.

are they also going to cancel the remaining primaries or not report when hillary trounces obama in the next two.

[Aleka4]

Get a grip on reality, buddy.

I don't know what polls you are looking at, but he is leading her nationally and while she does match up better by a whole single percentage point this minute, that is the eqivalent of cherry picking - he has had that same lead or better for most of this contest. It is disingenuous to hold this up as some kind of standard. It is not.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

She HAS lost. This is not some conspiracy. Within the next couple of days (probably today), it will become mathematically impossible for her to reach 2025 even WITH the projected lopsided wins in the remaining racist states and even IF every remaining superd suddenly decided to back the loser for no reason.

As it stands now, she will need 95% of them to overturn the electorate. If you think THAT is likely to happen, I have a bridge to sell you. At 3 am.

[eurydice]

Great, two states where African-American Senators are referred to as "Boy" by their elected officials.
These two hillbilly states are red states that will go to McCain in November anyway.

[CapitalistRebel]

The polls, the polls! That seems to be all you hardcore Clinton supporters have left to cling to.

If we went by the "polls" 5 months before the actual election, Rudy would be the Republican nominee, Dukakis, Kerry, and Bush Sr would have won.

[live]

It is more than just rasmussen . It is hard to find hillary on the news these days

mostly it is now down to nothing but the number of SD'S Obama is getting

As for McCain what we have been seeing of him isnt that great-except for he doesnt want Obama calling him nutty

I hope this tactict of calling into question McCain's stability is used at length in the general election
it seems to have hit a nerve with McCain's campaign.

[eurydice]

Hey, I just saw Chelsea setting up some chairs and moving a podium around on CNN.

Hillary's getting ready to speak at a turkey shoot in Hatfield hollow.

[eurydice]

Oh no! The McCoy boys just arrived. And they brought their guns!

[eurydice]

Yikes! They're a shootin' !

The only upside of this, is Hillary might finally get to experience some real sniper fire.

[abby4ever]

***...Rasmussen Reports will soon end our daily tracking of the Democratic race and focus exclusively on the general election competition between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.***
Depending on the standing and reliability of Rasmussen, this could be one of the most telling developments of the last three days. I wonder if the Hillary camp has seen this, if they have informed Hillary of it, and what her reaction will be. My guess is that it will be what it always is: deny, deny, deny, discredit, discredit, discredit.

[useyourbrain]

And Rasmussen doing this means what? The process is over? Who the fuck is Rasmussen but a discredited polling company. There are 50 other polling companies and until Obama gets those 2025 votes AT THE CONVENTION, he is not the nominee.

[dbdzen]

Pro-choice women know that Clinton's short-term selfish ambition is bad for them.

Her last stand is really about Wright.

Perhaps she should run an exit poll on whether Hagee or Rod Parsley matter in how voters view McCain. Most voters are unaware of their toxic sermons because they're too busy working hard.

If the media dedicated 42% of their political coverage to Hagee and Parsley in April AND McCain's clearly half-hearted denunciations, his religious base would splinter similarly and his polling numbers among independents would fall.

I agree, for many of Hillary's hard working Americans, Wright was a pretext, or a latch-on issue that they could finally point to as a reason not to vote Obama without having to admit they were having difficulty (as Democrats) electing a man who failed by the "1-Drop Rule." It even allowed some to deceitfully claim, "I was planning to support him all along but then this Wright thing happened."

Why do I know this? Because many Americans sticking with Obama have hard-working "Clinton relatives" that have privately admitted as much.

Caution, female Clinton voters "leaning McCain" or planning to stay home may end up having Roe v Wade overturned.

-Justice John Paul Stevens is nearly 90
-We're at 4 Conservative Justices on Supreme Court (Alito, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas)
-The next president will nominate Steven's replacement.

Nice trade - Clinton's last stand = loss of choice for women.
You can have imperfect Obama or McCain.

[EuroPreacher]

CONFIRMED:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGTinqw-CFE

[GeorgeKaplan]

That's all we need! Another spoof on the 3:00 am ad. If only they were remotely funny it would be ok, but most of this is just rubbish.

[LAcarlito]

Please tell me who has polled or defined "hard-working white people" other than the elitist Hillary herself? Who exactly is a "hard-working" white? Just people who make less than $50,000? Why? Who decided to define it this way? Who has the monopoly on hard work?

This is a not so subtle jab at Obama's supporters that offends me deeply. The press took offense at the white portion of her statement. I think Hillary was using code to try to paint Obama supporters as elitist, when it is Hillary herself who is acting like an elitist ass in talking like this. Please do not pick up on this language unless you can defend it, which you can NOT.

We are all hard working for what we make/earn on a daily basis whether it is more or less than $50,000 and no matter who we vote for.