Not really. Mitt does this a lot. He took very different positions earlier in the year and is now reversing himself on all of them because that is now more politically expedient.
Rasmussen was biased an innacurate in 2010:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/
Rasmussen was not the most accurate. They were mediocre:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/05/blast-from-rasmussen-past.html
They were also very innacurate in 2000, again biased towards Republicans.







