Thread by @Rasmussen_Poll

President @realDonaldTrump mentioning his approval poll numbers within his recent approval range seems to send mainstream media into a fact-checking frenzy.

What their “poll analysts” NEVER seem to focus on is survey basis & survey party weighting. So let’s help them.

Is a survey of All Adults, or Registered Voters, or Likley Voters? Those key metrics are symbolized here on @RealClearNews as either an A, RV or LV.

Rasmussen Reports always uses Likely Voters based polls for all political subjects year round.

realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/p…

Party weighting is also key. Our Likely Voters based polls in 2019 have been weighted D37, R 33, Ind 30, or D+4.

We check these daily weight assumptions every 2 weeks against the Michigan Consumer Confidence Index using our proprietary Daily Consumer Confidence Index.

How frequently other pollsters determine & check their own party weighting’s is for them to say. Be sure to look for it.

And we are not alone in showing higher Likely Voters based approval results for @realDonaldTrump in recent weeks.

Just-So-U-Know.

zogbyanalytics.com/news/888-trump…

And finally, for non-political type questions, we use our All Adults based screen.

It’s also tested for correlation against the Michigan Consumer Confidence Index every 2 weeks.

Currently it’s weighted D 35, R 28, Ind 37, or D+7.

So with our Likely Voters polls weighted D+4, our All Adults polls weighted D+7, & our last Presidential matchup showing Hillary Clinton winning the Popular Vote by the exact margin she won it by (D+2), should perhaps the MSM scribes call us a -

“Democratic pollster?”

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