Rasmussen: Obama ties Clinton

[Mr. Morden]

This is a quote from me from a post I made in another thread five days ago:

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[Mr. Morden]

but it hasn't gotten a ton of play yet, and might not turn out to be an outlier.  in other words, you still could be right or you could be wrong.

I wasn't saying that my prediction has already proved to be right.  It was more of a "my prediction is right so far, so I'll restate the rest of it, as I stand by it" type of post.  One thing I'll say though is that, while I certainly expect this poll to get a lot of play from the blogosphere, I'm not sure about the MSM, as they tend to ignore Rasmussen.  In fact, they frequently ignore every pollster except for whatever polling organization that particular news outlet uses...and maybe Gallup as well.

[Mr. Morden]

but it hasn't gotten a ton of play yet, and might not turn out to be an outlier.  in other words, you still could be right or you could be wrong.

I wasn't saying that my prediction has already proved to be right.  It was more of a "my prediction is right so far, so I'll restate the rest of it, as I stand by it" type of post.  One thing I'll say though is that, while I certainly expect this poll to get a lot of play from the blogosphere, I'm not sure about the MSM, as they tend to ignore Rasmussen.  In fact, they frequently ignore every pollster except for whatever polling organization that particular news outlet uses...and maybe Gallup as well.

USA Today partners with Gallup, so they get a lot of coverage that way.

I don't think that explains it completely.  I think there's just something about how Gallup's a well known prestigious polling firm, that leads to it getting special treatment from the MSM.  For example, when National Journal did their candidate rankings a few weeks ago, they refered to Fred Thompson as "the 12% candidate", as that's what he was polling at in Gallup.  Gallup wasn't the only poll to have included Fred Thompson, but it got a lot more attention that any of the others.