PPP: "Obama did very well on our PA and NC polls over the weekend. Not buying the drop."

[highplainsdem]

From Public Policy Polling's Twitter account this morning:

http://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/179580942669709312

PublicPolicyPolling ?
@ppppolls

Obama did very well on our Pennsylvania and North Carolina polls over the weekend. Not buying the drop.

9:53 AM - 13 Mar 12

[Aerows]

1. Neither is anyone paying attention

We've all seen manufactured news before. This is a blatant attempt to create the illusion of an OMG THE RACE IS CLOSE! to keep people watching.

The only people that believe the drop are people who desperately WANT to believe in it, and probably most of them deep down know that it's contrived.

[CTyankee]

2. The Morning Joe crew were on this like white on rice today...

Willy Geist looked joyful.

I turned it off.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Someone here yesterday posted that the CBS poll over-sampled identified Republicans by 7%

If so, that accounts for almost all of the delta. Not like the media has a vested interest in another "horse race", though. The "country is evenly split" narrative might be great for the media...but it sucks for trying to actually make progress in this country.

[Pirate Smile]

4. I think that was the Washington Post/ABC poll. NYT/CBS had it's own funny numbers. They dropped the

Dem #'s to a 20 year low instead of inflating the Republican ones. Different ways to get the same effect.

JeffersonObama was all over it on Twitter last night: https://twitter.com/#!/JeffersonObama

[Downwinder]

5. Trying to allow for voter suppression?

Don't think it will work.

[Jennicut]

7. ABC seem to oversample Repubs and CBS seemed to undersample Dems.

I think Obama has been effected by gay prices, but more by 2 to 3%. Not the 9% drop CBS polled. I wouldn't read to much into it. Polls at this point are just too early to really mean much.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. K&R