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The Examiner points us to this Rasmussen Reports poll that claims to show that 40 percent of U.S. voters prefer retrocession to Maryland to the compromise struck by the D.C. House Voting Rights Act. Other purported findings of the poll: only 45 percent support giving the District a vote in the House, and 60 percent oppose statehood for D.C.

For the definitive piece explaining exactly how Rasmussen Reports issue polls manufacture “answers that conservatives like” and should therefore be cited with skepticism, read Dave Weigel’s take in the Washington Independent.

A 2007 poll by the Washington Post found 61 percent of Americans support giving D.C. a full voting member in the House. A 2005 poll by KRC Research had 82 percent of respondents supporting giving citizens living in D.C. equal congressional voting rights to other Americans.