GOP-commissioned poll puts Romney 1 point back in Pa.

[modrepub]

In contrast to other recent surveys, a new Pennsylvania poll commissioned by the Republican State Committee shows Mitt Romney trailing in the state by just one percentage point, party Chairman Robert A. Gleason Jr. said Thursday.

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Gleason said his party's polling, conducted Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, showed the race a statistical dead heat, with Obama at 48 percent, GOP nominee Romney at 47, and 3 percent of voters undecided.


link: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120920_GOP-commissioned_poll_puts_Romney_1_point_back_in_Pa_.html?c=0.9889759978479831&posted=y&viewAll=y#comments

State Repubs desperate to keep their base from staying home and conceding other state offices.

[bigdarryl]

1. OH BULLSHIT!!!! LOL LOL

[BlueStreak]

13. I will believe that when I see Romney making campaign stops in PA

[wilt the stilt]

2. they forgot to mention

they only called republicans and he still only trailed by 1.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. ROFL

[smorkingapple]

3. The every 4 year PA fantasy. I love it

They always think they have a shot. Romney doesn't which is why he's not spending any money there.

[yankeepants]

4. It probably means

that they are still planning to e-steal that state's votes so someone has to show the polling is close.

[TroyD]

5. I don't think they can steal it when most other polls have Obama up 9 points there n/t

[Blue Yorker]

6. Why does the Philadelphia Inquirer stoop to this level?

Why?

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. The state GOP has an intense interest in getting their voters out for downticket races

Your analysis is exactly right. Romney will lose PA by 10 points. That's obvious enough. But if the GOP starts losing districts behind GOP voter demoralization, that's a bigger problem for the GOP, especially at the state level. So, obviously, they are going to try to fire up their base, even with this pathetic and clearly false gambit. If it was even close in PA, Romney would be visiting and putting up ads nonstop. It's not close, and he's not.

[TroyD]

9. So has Romney pulled out of PA completely?

Are all the ads gone right now?

[Cosmocat]

10. His campaign has

but, the Super Pacs are still hitting the air pretty hard.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Romney ads were pulled from PA weeks ago

from what I recall. You might get some spillover in Western PA from the Ohio market.

[DFW]

12. Maybe that takes into account all the legitimate voters they have purged

THEN you might get there.

[Jennicut]

14. Pa is done for Mittens, stick a fork in it.

It is not a swing state this year and has never polled well for Romney. This is to reassure Repub voters and make them come out to vote in Pa for other races.