FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
Its quite irrelevant who the Republicans use
for the their polling...and for that matter its also irrelevant who the Dems use...
You have a hair up your tush because Fox News contracts with Rasmussen to do polling for them
and mentions them regularly on TV.
Some years Rasmussen is right on the mark and some years they're not...so what...7 of 8 were wrong to some degree or another (all in favor of Republicans), thats the fact of the matter....
I find it much more telling that the author of the article describes himself as "rational progressive" and the NY Times is a left leaning rag....
Nick Silver's opinion does lean to the left, his predictions are usually spot on, even though, unlike pretty much every other election predictor, he doesn't have an "undecided" column.
In the house he predicted the Democrats would get 200, and they got 190 (although he did admit that they uncertainty in the model was huge because of the large number of seats changing hands, and that they could go anywhere from a slight majority to 180). In the senate he predicted they would win 52 and they won 53. Overall it was a pretty good model.