I’ve read that Pest Dispatch article several times, and nowhere in it does it say what percentage of voters actually support McCasket.
The much discussed Rasmussen poll shows McCasket at 48%, up from 44% in the previous poll. In other words, she could only pick up 4% after the media storm blew through and after the GOP-E lynch mob got done with their work.
The biggest gain there was the “prefer another candidate” category, as yet unnamed.
I suspect the Pest Dispatch deliberately danced around the real numbers because, like the Rasmussen poll, it would show McCasket’s underlying weakness, polling at less than 50% after her opponent was completely trashed by the media, the RNC, and the DNC.
It will certainly be interesting to see the next round of polls on this race in a couple of weeks as the kneejerk effect subsides.
...and nowhere in it does it say what percentage of voters actually support McCasket.
Perhaps you're expected to take the results of this question to be representative or indicative of that...
QUESTION: If the 2012 general election for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat were held today, would you vote for Claire McCaskill, the Democrat, or Todd Akin, the Republican?
.................McCASKILL....AKIN
Democrat ...........89 .............5
Republican .........14 ............79
Independent .......52 ............35
...625 registered Missouri voters interviewed statewide by phone. All stated they were likely to vote in the November general election.
You know how it is.