When people say a polling firm is “PRO-candidate”, they really mean that the pollster tends to skew the results to help that candidate, NOT that candidate leads in any particular poll.
But sometimes people use the term “PRO-candidate” to describe a POLL, rather than a pollster. In that case, the information is less useful, as they usually are just describing the poll results.
The easiest way to tell if a pollster is skewing polls to a candidate is to see if over time their results are better for one candidate than all the other polls.
But since PPP seems to be almost the only firm reporting 2012 presidential primaries right now at the state and federal level, it’s hard to compare with other polls.
And this far out, it’s hard to make any judgments, as the poll can’t possibly know who is likely to vote.
The point I am trying to make is twofold:
1)The GOP primary voters are not buying into the media narrative that Palin is political poison and unelectable.
2)Mitt Romney is NOT inevitable.