It is called confirmation bias, a classic logical fallacy.

Electoral-vote.com throws out Rasmussen polls. Why? Because it's putatively biased towards Republics. But other public polls are arguably biased toward Democrats. Why throw out Ras for partisan bias when you do not even attempt to eliminate those which are Democratic bias.

In science, if you want your paper to be published, you do not arbitrarily throw out so-called biased data. Why? Because every scientist understands that all data is biased. If you want your model to be closest to the truth you do not throw out any data. In the big picture, biases will balance out and the consensus should be close to the mark. This is especially true as we approach election day.

No other electoral map is as optimistic about a Dem victory as electoral-vote.com. I don't trust it because it arbitrarily throws out data based on confirmation bias, which is precisely why it is so optimistic.

This is moonshine.

I thought I was pretty clear in stating you could remove them yourself to see any differences in results by removing them. Rasmussen and all the other polls are right there.

Damn dude if you're going to go all off on "confirmation bias" perhaps you should make sure you actually read the OP.

Only Nate Silver and e-v.com.

I am optimistic, but e-v.com does promote their Ras-less polls. And even with Ras, they are an outlier. Just these two facts make me want to reject e-v.com. This is not about rejecting their data because we all have the same data; it's a rejection of their conclusions which are wildly optimistic.