 In the 2000 presidential election, Scott Rasmussen polled under the name Portrait of America, a predecessor to Rasmussen Reports.The Portrait of America prediction for the 2000 presidential election was off by 4.5%, compared to the average 1.1% margin of error most other national polls gave at the time.In the 2004 presidential election, "Rasmussen...beat most of their human competitors in the battleground states, often by large margins," according to "Slate" magazine.