America's Pollster

Scott Rasmussen produces some of the most accurate polling we've seen in recent years, but it often shows better GOP results than many of the polls produced by the mainstream media.  That drives the lefties nuts when he's both accurate and showing positive things for the GOP.

The Wall Street Journal has a piece on Rasmussen and his impact on the elections:

You can tell it's a volatile political year when a balding, middle-aged pollster gets a standing ovation from hundreds of state legislators after delivering the news that only 23% of the people in this country believe today's federal government has the consent of the governed.

"Americans don't want to be governed from the left or the right," Scott Rasmussen tells the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conference of 1,500 conservative and moderate legislators. "They want, like the Founding Fathers, to largely govern themselves with Washington in a supporting—but not dominant—role. The tea party movement is today's updated expression of that sentiment."

Lots more at the link - read it all.