TRUMPS approval rating jumps four points in 24 hours to 49%!

You realize of course that those numbers expose how inaccurate the polls are, and not how Trump suddenly become 10% more acceptable.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports#Evaluations_of_accuracy_and_performance
Incredible/NOT Credible is indeed the word.

Rasmussen Reports - Wikipedia


"..,.After the 2010 midterm elections, Silver concluded that Rasmussen's polls were the Least accurate of the major pollsters in 2010, having an average error of 5.8 points and a pro-Republican bias of 3.9 points according to Silver's model.[69]

FiveThirtyEight currently rates Rasmussen Reports with a C+ grade and notes a simple average error of 5.3% across 657 polls analyzed.[81]

Jonathan Chait
Jonathan Chait of the New Republic said that Rasmussen is perceived in the "Conservative world" as "the gold standard"[82] and suggested the polling company asks the questions specifically to show public support for the Conservative position. They cited an example when Rasmussen asked "Should the government set limits on how much salt Americans can eat?" when the issue was whether to limit the amount of salt in pre-processed food.[83]

Other
The Center for Public Integrity listed "Scott Rasmussen Inc" as a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign.[84] T

he Washington Post reported that the 2004 Bush re-election campaign had used a feature on the Rasmussen Reports website that allowed customers to program their own polls,
and that Rasmussen asserted that he had not written any of the questions nor assisted Republicans.[85]

In 2009 Time magazine described Rasmussen Reports as a "Conservative-leaning polling group."[86]

John Zogby said in 2010 that Scott Rasmussen had a "Conservative constituency."[87]
In 2012 The Washington Post called Rasmussen a "polarizing pollster."[88]


Rasmussen has received criticism over the wording in its polls...
For instance, when Rasmussen polled whether Republican voters thought Rush Limbaugh was the leader of their party, the specific question they asked was: "Agree or Disagree: 'Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party—he says jump and they say how high.'"[90]

Talking Points Memo has questioned the methodology of Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index, which takes into account only those who "strongly" approve or disapprove of the President's job performance. TPM noted that this inherently skews negative, and reported that multiple polling experts were critical of the concept.[43] A New York Times article claims Ramussen Reports research has a "record of relying on dubious sampling and weighting techniques."[92]

A 2017 article by Chris Cillizza for CNN raised doubts about Rasmussen's accuracy, drawing attention specifically to potential sampling biases such as the exclusion of calls to cell-phones (which, Cillizza argued, tended to exclude younger voters), and also more generally to a lack of methodological disclosure. Cillizza did, however, note in the same piece that Rasmussen was one of the more accurate polling organizations during the 2016 United States presidential election.[93]

A December 2018 article by political writer and analyst Harry Enten called Rasmussen the least accurate pollster in the 2018 midterm elections after stating Rasmussen had projected the Republicans to come ahead nationally by 1 point,
while at the time Democrats were actually winning the national House vote by 8.6 points - an error of nearly 10 points.
[94]

Founder Scott Rasmussen is the author of a book,[95] and was a featured guest on a cruise by the Conservative media outlet National Review, along with other Conservative luminaries.[96]...

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