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2016 Postmortem

brooklynite

(94,599 posts) Thu Aug 11, 2016, 09:29 AM Aug 2016

New Quinnipiac Senate polls

https://www.qu.edu/images/polling/ps/ps08112016_Sfo47qx.pdf

PA: McGinty 47 - Toomey 44
OH: Portman 49 - Strickland 40
FL: Rubio 48 - Murphy 45 / Rubio 49 - Grayson 43

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New Quinnipiac Senate polls (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2016 OP

What the heck is going on in Ohio? oberliner Aug 2016 #1

Quinnipiac has typically NewJeffCT Aug 2016 #2

Large anti-Strickland ad buys from the Koch Brothers brooklynite Aug 2016 #3

Yup. Rob Portman is one of the Kochs' agents in the Senate, Hortensis Aug 2016 #4

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

1. What the heck is going on in Ohio?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 09:39 AM

Aug 2016

How did Portman get such a big bounce?

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)

2. Quinnipiac has typically

Reply to oberliner (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 09:42 AM

Aug 2016

overcounted male voting percentages and republican voting percentages. Not as badly as Rasmussen, but they have had a recent history of it.

brooklynite

(94,599 posts)

3. Large anti-Strickland ad buys from the Koch Brothers

Reply to oberliner (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 09:56 AM

Aug 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

4. Yup. Rob Portman is one of the Kochs' agents in the Senate,

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 12:24 PM

Aug 2016

consistently voting for whatever benefits their businesses, especially energy at great cost to the environment. They're apparently doing everything they can to keep him in office.

Same for their dirty Senator Joe Heck in Nevada. Depending on which poll, he's either neck and neck with his competitor or has fallen slightly behind.

And of course the Koch alliance's very own Marco Rubio. They are trying hard to smother solar energy development in Florida, and he's going to help them do it. Or not. Rubio's lead is narrowing, but the Kochs have reportedly bought big TV time for the fall.

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