Posted on 09/19/2012 3:12:35 PM PDT by LS
The Pa. Republican Party will release an internal poll on Thursday that shows Mitt Romney within 1 point of Barack Obama.
The survey was conducted on Sept. 17. by Susquehanna Polling and Research, a firm commonly used by Pa. Republicans.
According to the average of public polling compiled by Real Clear Politics, Obama leads Romney in Pa. by 8.3 percent, 49 percent to 40.7. Republicans have spent the past week pushing back against signs, including a lack of TV ads, that the state is falling out of play. Last week, Gov. Tom Corbett and Sen. Pat Toomey each insisted that internal polls are more telling than public ones.
We’ll bring you more details on the poll including methodology when they are available tomorrow.
Romney doesn’t even need Pennsylvania.....
It’d be great, though. Obviously if PA goes GOP, it will be game over and I won’t even have to stay up till 9 pm.
Internals will be interesting. Hopefully it is not like pews latest bs poll but in reverse. obama voters 37 pct polled, mccain voters 22 pct polled
Not necessarily,There's NV and CO,among others in the Central Time Zone.
I wouldn’t put a nickel into PA. Always a tease. The ACORN voters in Pitt and Philly are too tough to overcome.
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Ryan on September 19, 2012 at 2:50 pm said:
While I am always skeptical of internal polls, Susquehanna has a good track record. They nailed the 2010 statewide races and also nailed the PA-12 special election in 2010.
emphasis mine)
DRayRaven on September 19, 2012 at 5:13 pm said:
If Romney is the worst presidential candidate in generations, it’s a good thing he’s running against the worst president in US history.
I trust the internal polls, especially since I live in PA and it matches what I see on the ground.
But my, oh, my…the left certainly is desperate to claim this race is over, aren’t they? They’ll be devastated on election night when Obama loses and it’s not even that close.
Oh. My. God.
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Certainly better than the Fox polls that have Romney 9 behind in the three key swing states. They’re probably using those 2008 models too.
I live in Pittsburgh,Obama will win this state.
PA is a solid blue state...
It would be great to win it but I’m afraid that is pipe dream
Can someone explain why internal polling might be more accurate, and why the “external” polling orgs don’t use those same methodologies (aside from the bias of news organizations)?
For the life of me, I don’t know WHY people were counting out PA for Romney. When I go to realclearpolitics and look at the PA polls, they have Zero up by 4 points and don’t have any link to the poll internals. When there is no link to the internals, you can bet they are over-sampling Dims. Then I thought surely the Romney campaign has their own PROPER internal polls of PA.
This is exactly what I believe is going on. The lame-stream polls showing Zero ahead are over-sampling Dims. I just wish Team Romney would put out more hints about their internal polls.
When I look at Romney and Zero, it is not Romney who looks desperate to me.
See? Don’t be so quick to write off Pennsylvania. If we can overcome the Philly vote, we’ve got this. I just hope the momentum is also enough to get Casey out of the Senate as well.
30 posted on Saturday, September 08, 2012 8:59:45 AM
Given this miserable economy and it's disastrous effect on my little shop, it won't be much,
but if PA doesn't return to sanity and go 'Red' in November, I'll kick in a few extra $s to the 4Q FReepathon.
“I wouldn’t put a nickel into PA. Always a tease. The ACORN voters in Pitt and Philly are too tough to overcome.”
along with MN and MI
This is the first election in which we have voter ID in PA. How many philly undead will not get to vote?
I actually watched the Obama/Letterman lovefest last night and it was Obama who seemed to be on the defensive, with "uh" being every other word.
As for Letterman he made Monica Lewinsky look like Mother Theresa, with his fawning eyes towards Obama.
ANY INTERNALS? I would like this to be true....I have said before, and I’ll say again: Obamugabe’s unpopularity is vastly under-reported.
I have not heard in 3+ years anyone saying hardly ANYTHING about Obama.
When they do it is almost always not good.
Many times they don’t even say his name but say how things have got much worse.
The noticeable soring cost of food and gas is worrisome for a lot of people in n.pa and I would imagine everywhere.
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