All the polls show a least a softening of Obama’s national numbers. But you may have seen right wing sites pushing the new Rasmussen index showing Obama deep into negative territory, with a dozen or so deficit in terms of approval vs. disapproval.
Look a little deeper though and you’ll see that Rasmussen is using a way of slicing the numbers he never used until quite recently, and one that no other pollster seems to use as his top-line measurement.
Eric Kleefeld phoned up Rasmussen and asked him what was up.
