By Dave Andrusko Tucked away in the current conventional wisdom about the status of the presidential contest between pro-life Mitt Romney and pro-abortion Barack Obama is an important truth and a very questionable conclusion. The truth is the race remains very, very,...
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Pollsters defend methods that assume more Democrats than Republicans will vote in 2012
By Dave Andrusko Some things ARE inevitable, one of which is that pollsters, especially those that work with media outlets, would eventually strike back at charges that many of their polls are severely skewed against Mitt Romney. The basic criticism of their...
Rasmussen Confirms: only one point separates Obama and Romney
By Dave Andrusko Rasmussen Reports today verifies what the recent Washington Post/ABC News poll concluded: after both party conventions, the race between pro-life Mitt Romney and pro-abortion President Barack Obama is back where has been--within a point. The President...
Rasmussen reports percentage identifying as Republican highest since it began recording these numbers in 2002
By Dave Andrusko One last item today, the first day of the Democratic National Convention. Rasmussen reported over the weekend that those who consider themselves Republican hit an all-time high in August, jumping by nearly three points—from 34.9% in July to 37.6%....
Major Changes in Favorability figures ominous trend for Democrats
By Dave Andrusko Gallup reported yesterday that “GOP Favorability Matches 2008 Pre-Convention Level: Democrats' image ties GOP's, but at two-decade convention-time low.” While Republicans’ favorability ratings have improved somewhat since 2008, over the same period...
Friday’s look at the Polls
By Dave Andrusko As we do every Friday, we end this week’s National Right to Life News Today with a review of what the poll numbers tell us. Previously we discussed the “intensity gap”: Republicans hold a twelve point advantage. We also talked about Rasmussen’s...
Rasmussen has Romney up four; other polls show “enthusiasm gap” favoring Republicans
By Dave Andrusko The last item for Thursday’s edition of National Right to Life News Today, as it often is, is an update on the presidential race. Yesterday we talked about a Quinnipiac survey of three “swing states” for CBS/New York Times. Romney is ahead in...
An Update on a ridiculously flawed Pew Poll
By Dave Andrusko It’s Friday, which means we’ll be running a couple of stories about the 2012 presidential contest. Let me begin with a follow up on a story we ran yesterday. It is a stunner, both for what it says and for the obvious lack of understanding what it...
Another Day, another bogus poll
By Dave Andrusko Today’s “who-do-they-think-they’re-fooling?” poll comes courtesy of Pew Research. While Rasmussen has pro-life Mitt Romney ahead of pro-abortion President Barack Obama by two points and every other legitimate poll has the two men within a point or...
A flighty poll vs. a nuts-and-bolts assessment of the basics
By Dave Andrusko When and if a poll based on a sample that is fairly representative of the real world comes out showing President Obama well ahead of Mitt Romney, NRL News Today will report it as such and encourage pro-lifers to work even harder. Well, I’m still going...