What is up with all these weird third and fourth rate polling firms out of nowhere showing strong Romney performances?
It could be that one or more of the following --
1. the Romney/Ryan campaign
2. The Republican Party
3. GOP front groups like Crossroads, FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity, and the Club for Growth
is/are commissioning swing-state polls from pollsters whose methodologies strongly favor Romney in an effort to sow despair or destructive anger among Democrats. Consider Pulse, really a subsidiary of Rasmussen; it will poll for anyone for a modest price. I ignore that pollster because the poll is likely bought by a political party or interest group.
Entities like PPP, Quinnipiac, Marist, and Selzer are not coming out with these polls.
