 "Slate magazine" and "The Wall Street Journal" reported that Rasmussen Reports was one of the most accurate polling firms for the 2004 United States presidential election and 2006 United States general elections.In 2004 "Slate" "publicly doubted and privately derided" Rasmussen's use of recorded voices in electoral polls.However, after the election, they concluded that Rasmussen’s polls were among the most accurate in the 2004 presidential election.