During the last presidential races, they did produce a lot of Badnarik polling data, and once for Russo.

As I was the manager of the Russo for President campaign, and communications director for the Badnarik campaign, it is important to note that we paid for these results. My recollection is that we did poll on Nader a few times, but kept those results “off the record” in most, but not all cases. We didn’t poll Nader in states where he was not on the ballot, as a general rule.

Rasmussen only conducted national polls (without a state-by-state breakout) about presidential preference last election cycle, to the best of my knowledge. With Nader’s significant ballot access problems last time around, I am sure Rasmussen was in a quandary about how to deal with the issue considering the complications of his methodology. Whenever he (or someone from his office) spoke, he (twice, if memory serves correctly) asked about the latest ballot access rumors.

Rasmussen certainly has taken some lead and risk (although been paid for it, most of the time) with respect to third party politics. By the same token, there is no reason, considering his polling methods, that he should not have included the name Russel Potts, as I understand the story.

and I hate to say it, but the “paparazzi” ad with the shutter is so annoying I cant stay on a page that it’s on. Bad ad.