MN-PPP: Pawlenty leads primary

[Lief 🗽]

But PPP doesn't ask for "caucus" voters.  They ask for "regular Republican voters."

They've said in the comments on their website that they think it's too early to screen the "regular Republican voters" as "likely caucus goers", so they're just polling it as if it were a primary for now.

[Lief 🗽]

Lief,

That makes a big difference though especially in a state like Iowa.  It probably doesn't change Minnesota that much but I think Vander Plaats would have won a caucus against Branstad.

Oh yeah, I agree with you, and it's probably while pollsters like Selzer who have a lot more experience with caucus-polling did better than the national pollsters in 2008. Just explaining why PPP hasn't been doing "caucus" polls.