Reality Check, Without Rasmussen

By The Daily Dish

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:

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Compare with the Rasmussen data included below.

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