Survey USA polls are totally automated and have been known to accept input from sufficiently trained housepets.
Nevertheless it's nice to see that Obie has peaked and now dropping rapidly. McKenna will be well into single digits by this week's end.
Ryan is no where near 46%. A far more reliable and recent Tribune poll had him at 30. Hell, he drew 28 in strawpoll at Chicago Conservative Conference last spring -- well before he ever spent his first TV dollar -- so he's really not moved but a whit. Aspersions and innuendo, whether true or not, will hurt him badly over next two weeks.
They are typically very accurate. You should check out their record some time. Besides, I wanted to give one polling organization to show the trend.
Rasmussen and the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs confirm the SurveyUSA results.
Rasmussen - Feb 21-ish
Ryan 41, Oberweis 17, McKenna 11, Rauschy 4
That was between SUSA polls showing 35% and 46% for Ryan, consistent with the upward trend.
The Institute for M.A. had a higher % of undecided, but the relatives percents are roughly in line:
36-14-8-4
Was taken about the same time as the Rasmussen poll.
Seems to me that the Trib polls are crap.
#1, Taken Jan. 6-11, #2 Taken Feb. 11-17
JACKRyan 12 - 30 Oberweis 16 - 12 AMcKenna 5 - 8 Rauschen 5 - 4 Undecide 57 - 43
. . . then it appears Rauschenberger is losing support. However, considering that the first Trib poll showing Ryan 12, Oberweis 16 was taken right before SurveyUSA showed Ryan 29, Oberweis 17 -- well, I know which one was borne out by later polling. Seems to me they leave too many people in undecided, when many of them are leaning to a certain candidate.