Rasmussen daily graph for 2/17/08 - Clinton up 1 (44), Obama unchanged (47)

[DavidDvorkin]

The rate of tightening is slowing. Which sounds profound, doesn't it?

On the Republican side, Huckabee's surge seems to have evaporated, and McCain is surging instead. For GOPers, we should put everything in terms of "surge" to show how silly they sound when they use that word.

These graphs are all contained on one Web page at http://www.dvorkin.com/rastrack.html

Gallup now has a daily tracking poll graph: http://www.gallup.com/poll/104107/Gallup-Daily-Tracking-Election-2008.aspx








(Pretend that the 10 and 20 lines are actually 0. Does anyone know how to make Excel label different parts of the axis differently?)

Rasmussen links:
Data in tabular form
Discussion

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Kick

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Kerick

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Kayack

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Creak

[rodeodance]

9. bumpy

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Kraken!

[grantcart]

6. Gallup daily

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Consistent with Rasmussen

So they're both wrong and meaningless and distorted by outliers.

[TexasObserver]

8. the trend lines are correct, although I'm not crazy about Rasmussen.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. I've been saying from when I started posting these graphs

months ago that even if the numbers aren't accurate, I'm assuming the trends are. And they do seem to be.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Crikey!