Akin citing PPP poll (PPP trap works)

Twitter ^ | August 21, 2012 | Phillip Klein

[C19fan]

Philip Klein ‏@philipaklein Akin citing PPP poll

[C19fan]

Looks like the only time the left leaning PPP poll over samples GOP voters is to convince Akin to stay in the race. What a sucker and woe to us hoping for a GOP take over of the Senate.

[cripplecreek]

Apparently Romney fell into the same trap. LOL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2921165/posts

[hecht]

he is even stupider than anyone thought.

[hitchwolf]

Wow what a dumb person. I mean really, what an extremely stupid human being.

This is a shining example of why most people in the country hate both sides and what a third party. Both sides bring the dumb on a daily basis.

[Parmenio]

I don’t understand your point. The Wisconsin poll came out long after Romney had made the decision to choose Romney.

[Parmenio]

I don’t understand your point. The Wisconsin poll came out long after Romney had made the decision to choose Ryan.

[Linda Frances]

I could care less what polls say, but the gop-e has already stuck their nose where is didn't belong. They forced romney on us by helping him cheat, lie and steal the primary. They already lost voters like me with their tactics; are they going for broke and trying to push out ALL true conservatives? My Missouri friends are hot at what the gop-e is trying to do. Rove, Jeb Bush and his dad, Drudge, Beck, Coulter, Faux News, Hume.....are starting to act like the dictator, Obama, they complain about. They need to back off or they will lose even more conservatives.

[RC one]

the SOB is either blackmailing us or working for the dems or both.

[Cyber Liberty]

They’re both guilty of believing their own good press. That’s been the downfall of many a big-headed politician.

[Ingtar]

Looking at the two posts ahead of yours, which he?

[factmart]

Romney won fair and square and only stupid people will not vote for him.

[publius911]

#6

[hecht]

Akin

[keithbacker]

For anyone uncertain why the PPP poll was a trap:

http://battlegroundwatch.com/2012/08/21/one-more-reason-i-dont-blog-ppp-polls/
Multiple times I have pointed out that PPP polls are laden with pro-Obama and pro-Democrat bias. This is not an independent organization who happens to be Democrat leaning, they are a pro-Democrat polling firm with an agenda.

Today’s Missouri poll showing embattled Senate nominee Todd Akin leading Claire McCaskill by 1 point is a perfect example of this bias. Democrats greatly benefit if Akin stays in the race since he is both deeply flawed and now mortally wounded. These flaws were the reason Democrats spent millions during the primary campaign to assist Akin to victory. Now the only way Akin stays in the race is if he thinks he can still win. So PPP runs a poll at their own expense, not for a paying client, that surveys Republican turnout far higher than it has ever been in order to construct a result to their liking. The party ID in Missouri in 2008 was D +6 (Dem:40, Rep: 34, Ind: 26). In 2004 the split was R +1 (Dem: 35, Rep: 36, Ind: 29). Today’s poll? R +9!!! (Dem: 30, Rep: 39, Ind: 32).

This is a poll designed to give Akin comfort that he can still win despite the near unanimous consensus of conservative, moderate, Tea Party and establishment Republicans telling him to bow out. This was not a poll to gauge actual Missourians reaction to Akin’s idiocy. It was an advocacy poll to buoy the candidate in order to help the Democrats. I do not care to waste my time having to greatly scrutinize every single poll from an unabashedly biased source. Hence I do not and will not blog PPP polls even if I like the results.

[Hieronymus]

Nice way of accidentally stating a profound truth.

[publius911]

I am posting this with just one comment :
Akins may have been just too clever for his own good. He seems to lack the judgement to recognize "third rails" in political dialog, specially when the femenist mafia is involved.

Perhaps he should have left things alone until more legitimacy had accrued to the following.
Lack of judgement is a political fatal flaw.

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