A new Rasmussen national poll of likely Republican voters has Newt Gingrich surging. Gingrich is only 3% points behind Romney for first. Mitt Romney 30% (+1% from the previous Rasmussen national poll.) Newt Gingrich 27% (+11%) Rick Santorum 15% (-6%) Ron Paul 13% Rick Perry 4%

According to this new Rasmussen poll of South Carolina; Newt Gingrich’s support is plummeting while Rick Santorum’s is surging. Right now Mitt Romney is in the lead by a small margin as Santorum & Gingrich are splitting the anti-Romney vote, but that could certainly change by the time the South Carolina primary is held on [...]

Rasmussen did a national GOP poll yesterday and it indicates a considerable bounce in support for Rick Santorum after his strong showing in Iowa on Tuesday. Mitt Romney 29% Rick Santorum 21% Newt Gingrich 16% It’s difficult to see a trendline of Santorum’s increase in support with this poll because Rasmussen hadn’t polled the Republican [...]

In a sign of just how positive things are looking for President Obama lately; even the Republican leaning Rasmussen Reports has good news for the President. Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll as the President at 52% approval today. This marks the first time he’s hit the 52% mark on Rasmussen since September 17th of 2009. I [...]

There’s been a lot of good polling news for President Barack Obama lately and there’s more out today. The President has a +10% point approval rating (51%) minus disapproval rating (41%) on Gallup’s presidential approval poll for the first time since last February. Even the Republican leaning Rasmussen Reports has the President in positive territory [...]

In very good news for President Obama’s 2012 presidential reelection prospects Gallup’s daily tracking poll has the President at 51% approval today for the first time since mid May of last year. But that’s not the only good polling news out today for the President. PPP’s new poll says that the President has widened his [...]

There’s a story going around today about how President Obama only has 39% approval (according to a new Zogby poll) but it’s important to point out that Zogby is a very untrustworthy pollster and that both Gallup and Rasmussen (which has a heavy Republican bias) both have President Obama at 47% approval! President Obama’s approval [...]

Let’s take a look at Rasmussen’s final polls for the Senate races vs. the actual results to see if there is evidence of a systematic bias towards Republicans in their polling. I’m only looking at Senate races where there was a Rasmussen poll within the last month. There are some really obvious states (like Idaho [...]

Democratic Senators Harry Reid (Nevada) and Michael Bennett (Colorado) were both predicted to lose by the pollsters. They did not. Just last week the Republican leaning pollster Rasmussen had the Tea Party nut Sharron Angle ahead of Reid 49% to 45%. Nate Silver’s model over at 538 predicted a 50% to 47% win for Angle. [...]

This graph shows the movement towards the Democrats in the generic ballot this month: I should note this graph does not include Rasmussen because of their clear allegiance to the Republican Party and their reputation for “narrative setting.” This movement towards the Democrats combined with evidence that generic house ballot polls are actually underestimating support [...]