2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGOP-commissioned poll puts Romney 1 point back in Pa.
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
(13,190 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)they only called republicans and he still only trailed by 1.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)smorkingapple
(827 posts)They always think they have a shot. Romney doesn't which is why he's not spending any money there.
yankeepants
(1,979 posts)that they are still planning to e-steal that state's votes so someone has to show the polling is close.
TroyD
(4,551 posts)Blue Yorker
(436 posts)Why?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)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
(4,551 posts)Are all the ads gone right now?
Cosmocat
(14,568 posts)but, the Super Pacs are still hitting the air pretty hard.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)from what I recall. You might get some spillover in Western PA from the Ohio market.
DFW
(54,434 posts)THEN you might get there.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)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.