Rasmussen Releases Literally Unbelievable Poll
Their latest poll is either a huge blunder or outright fraud.
by James Buchanan
A political pollster plays a powerful role in an election. He can tell people Candidate C stands no chance while Candidates A and B are getting the lion’s share of the vote. He can encourage supporters of one candidate while demoralizing supporters of another. There is no criminal penalty for turning out a poll which is a complete pack of lies. The pollster can shirk his shoulders and claim he “made a mistake” picked the wrong “sampling population” while completely switching the numbers around in an opinion poll.
For a long time the media in America was controlled by far left liberals. Today it is controlled by a mix of liberals and neocons. If special interests would buy up the mass media to control the news, what are the chances that these same special interests would overlook the opportunity to buy up or infiltrate all the major polling agencies too?
The Rasmussen polling agency claims that Rudy Giuliani, a man who has repeatedly placed in the bottom four, in Republican straw polls, is really the Republican front-runner while Ron Paul who received 81 percent of the vote in the GOP Alabama straw poll and 72 percent in the GOP New Hampshire straw poll has only one percent support. A recent update from Rasmussen claims “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson on top of the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Giuliani earns 24% of the vote from Likely Republican Primary Voters while Thompson is at 22%. Mitt Romney and John McCain are each favored by 13% while Mike Huckabee tops the second tier at 5%.”
Ron Paul got NINE PERCENT in the Iowa Straw Poll with its over 14,000 real, live Republican voters. This happened despite Paul being shut out of the debate in Iowa and despite a $35 per ticket charge to vote. Now this should be the absolute minimum, we should be willing to accept from these pollster/propaganda outlets. Meanwhile Rudy Giuliani got ONE PERCENT in the Iowa straw poll. Despite claims that Rudy did not campaign in Iowa, the truth is he spent 26 days touring Iowa in contrast to a mere 17 days by Ron Paul. Who looks like the most viable candidate based on those statistics???
While some people may want to wait to see if Paul creeps up in the “official” Rasmussen and Gallup polls, don’t hold your breath. Rasmussen and Gallup will still be placing Ron Paul in the low single digits by the time the last primary vote is made.
I can believe there might be a time lag between Internet savvy people and Joe Sixpack, but a total disconnect? I don’t think so. 85 percent of Americans regularly go on the Internet and Ron Paul is King there.
Ron Paul is the real deal –a true idealist, who loves the Constitution and whose political career is a model of integrity. Anyone with a pair of working eyeballs and an Internet connection should know this by now. If nothing else, the debates should have alerted people to the fact that Ron Paul wants to bring the troops home as soon as possible and repair the damage done to the Constitution by Bush and the neocons.
The vast majority of Americans want our troops brought home from Iraq AND the border with Mexico sealed off. It just makes sense that as people learn about Ron Paul, they will want to support him. Why vote for someone who only supports one (or zero) out of two big issues when you can support someone who is two for two? Most of the stuffed shirt candidates simply can’t be trusted. A few claim they will do “something” about the illegal alien problem. Unfortunately, the solution that Giuliani or Romney or Fred Thomspon would come up with would either be a total do-nothing policy leaving the border fence unfinished and 20 million illegals untouched or it would be a complete repeat of the Bush Amnesty proposal.
It’s true the mainstream media is going out of its way censoring Ron Paul news. His recent victories in New Hampshire, Alabama and Washington have all been censored from the headline news sections. But he’s being promoted on every political blog in the country. Ron Paul supporters are calling in radio shows and doing everything they can to crack the Media Iron Curtain. Ron Paul supporters are using a variety of creative tactics to reach people on the Internet or to reach people through impromptu street activities. Ron Paul supporters were most recently holding up a large banner on a bridge over the I-5 freeway in Salem Oregon as thousands of motorists drove by. I don’t see Giuliani supporters showing this sort of dedication. The first primary is months away, but Ron Paul supporters are so enthusiastic, they are going out on the streets today to promote the best man in the race.