FL: Rasmussen: Mack (R) beats Sen. Nelson (D) by 4

[Miles]

Mack's own internal just had him down by 6.

'More Rasmussen garbage.

[Miles]

Translation: "WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, I dontz likez da pollz, da mutz bez worngz111!!!!"

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/final_rasmussen_poll_results_2010_senate_elections

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2008/11/the-list-which-presidential-polls-were-most-accurate/

http://www.leftandrightnews.com/2010/11/13/poll-ratings-for-2010-governors-races/

Not to mention, both SurveyUSA and Quinnipiac destroyed PPP, even according to the biased Weasel Silver criteria (who coincidentally has no credibility after he flubbed numerous calls, including the people's veto in Maine) Yet strangely, PPP is held out as the be all, and end all on this far-left board.

Ok then, lets look at Rasmussen's horrendous record from 2010.

- It completely missed 4 Senate races (highlighted in yellow); 3 of those by 5 or more points.
- It had a Republican bias in 23 of 36 races.
- It missed 17 races by 5 or more points (in grey).

[Miles]

The most ridiculous one ever was the Hawaii one that showed the Republican only down thirteen and we must not forget the recent one with Perry being up in Wisconsin over the President.

I though Rasmussen's New York poll was pretty funny too...he had Cuomo winning with 51%.

[Miles]

Once PPP polls this race, Nelson will be ahead (albeit by a few points). Rassy is probably just following the Quinnipiac bandwagon here.

Yeah, he does that a lot. After PPP was the first to show Raese ahead of Manchin, that was Rasmussen's excuse to have Manchin trailing for most of the election.

[Miles]

Not sure if Mack is actually leading at this point, but polling done so far has at least shown that this will be a very competitive race. Has Nelson stated for sure that he's running?

Yeah.