03-05-2025, 05:59 PM
This is no doubt just the tip of the iceberg:
Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address
The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat
Just the SOS. (Not the distress call; the Same ‘Ol Shit)
One of the worst was Rasmussen releasing a poll showing a +1 point “Right track vs wrong track” poll which is wildly out of line with other current polls:
But this was a Rasmussen poll:
BTW, Rasmussen has only been asking this question for 20 years, which Trump characterized as “the first time in modern history”. My “modern history” goes back a wee bit farther, to like 2000, when up to 70% of people felt satisfied with the way things were going (per Gallup, who has been asking this question for 45+ years). (And then a couple years later, Bush II invaded Iraq, and that ended that.)
Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address
The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat
Just the SOS. (Not the distress call; the Same ‘Ol Shit)
One of the worst was Rasmussen releasing a poll showing a +1 point “Right track vs wrong track” poll which is wildly out of line with other current polls:
A poll from YouGov and The Economist, conducted among 1,595 adults from February 9 to February 11, showed just 35 percent of Americans believing the country is on the right track, compared to 52 percent who believed the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Meanwhile, a Marquette University poll showed 62 percent of Americans believing the country is on the wrong track, while 38 percent believe it's heading in the right direction. The poll surveyed 1,063 adults from January 27 to February 5.
But this was a Rasmussen poll:
As the polling expert Nate Silver noted last year, when it was revealed that Rasmussen was secretly showing its results to the Trump campaign, “this sort of explicit coordination with a campaign, coupled with ambiguity about funding sources, means that we’re going to label Rasmussen as an intrinsically partisan ® pollster going forward”.
BTW, Rasmussen has only been asking this question for 20 years, which Trump characterized as “the first time in modern history”. My “modern history” goes back a wee bit farther, to like 2000, when up to 70% of people felt satisfied with the way things were going (per Gallup, who has been asking this question for 45+ years). (And then a couple years later, Bush II invaded Iraq, and that ended that.)