Several readers complained that the approval graph below needs to have Rasmussen - the Republican outlier polling outfit - removed from the calculation. Rasmussen has a voter model that skews GOP because it views Republicans as likelier voters than many Democrats. Remove this bias and the result is more nuanced:
See web-only content:http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/11/reality-check-without-rasmussen/194596/
Compare with the Rasmussen data included below.
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