Team Rounds this week touted some paid polling that says South Dakotans think Marion Michael Rounds is just swell. Glen Bolger's Public Opinion Strategies finds that if Republicans had voted on April 8–10, they'd have picked Rounds by 61%. State Rep. Stace Nelson is the clear second-place choice, but even if he took all the votes currently distributed among Larry Rhoden, Jason Ravnsborg, and the 17% confused and undecided, he'd still take a South Dakota Democrat-sized beating.
That said, consider the timing of the poll. Bolger called South Dakotans before the SDNA debate on April 12, the first event at which King Mike deigned to answer questions on a stage next to Stace Nelson and the other challengers. King Mike took a pounding and immediately withdrew from the next debate.
Consider also the wording of the questions in Bolger's poll... or don't, since POS doesn't release the questions. Last week, RMA Research told us exactly how they were able to boost Corinna Robinson's numbers and deflate Rep. Kristi Noem's. Bolger just hands us the numbers and butters Rounds with words like stellar! and commanding! and encouragingly! and impressive! Hmm... was that Glen Bolger or Glen Blogger?
If we can set Bolger's boss-stroking descriptors aside and take his numbers at face value, the most disappointing finding is the Tea Party's surrender to Rounds. I'd like to think I could count on allies in the Tea Party (Gordon? Maybe?) to fight the encroachments of crony capitalism on our liberty. Yet Bolger says 65% of those who have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party also support crony capitalist par excellence Mike Rounds.
Bolger's numbers make it sounds as if the GOP primary will be about as exciting as this year's Super Bowl blow-out. Stace Nelson has five weeks to prove Bolger wrong.
For anyone expecting the teabaggers to mount a brave independent challenge, remember: The Tea Party is simply the hardcore base of the Republican party. They will always fall in line with whomever the party nominates.
I think you just enjoyed getting to use POS over and over again with Mike Rounds name.
The TEA party is Koch Brother's invention and his minions don't even know who they are following around.
The poll has to be faulty with Republicans only "the 17% confused." They are 100% confused with minor differences in state of confusion even when certain of their confusion.
This company has a reputation for doing push polling, is this the push poll that attacked the Nelson campaign? They certainly are pushing Rounds. This comes on the heels of Denise Ross' article observing Rounds lead cracking.
Being "favorable" to the Tea Party isn't the same as being Tea Party. If the TP is so hot on crony capitalism, then why are those loveable Fascists down at the Chamber of Commerce out to get them?
Why is following the Koch Bros (not that I accept that statement at face value) worse than being led by the nose by George Soros? The Kochs made their money by making and selling things, running a business in classic sense, for better or worse, while Soros made his by manipulating currencies and creating poverty. How would you like to wake up some morning and find your money suddenly worth 20% less? That happened in the UK when Soros shorted the Sterling. Let's face it: Big Money and Big Government are not a good combination no matter where it comes from.
Koch started by selling oil field equipment to Joseph Stalin.
Point of order: The Kochs made their money by inheriting it from Daddy.
http://www.redstate.com/2014/03/25/next-weekend-house-republicans-collaborate-with-left-wing-interests-against-conservatives/
Soros funded group meeting with wingnuts to overthrow tea-baggers.. McCain met with Soros overseas recently. Soros was worth around 7 billion bucks a couple of years ago and had already given that much to various charities. I don't hear how many billions Adelson or the koch bros have given to charity. Buffet pledged over 50 billion to the Gate's Foundation.
@Doug W-they are also in a state of denial so add those two to Obama's 57 states and we now have 59 states. The more the merrier,as long as the new states go blue immediately.
Did anyone ever find out who paid for this poll and what questions were being asked?
@Lynn G. KELO radio called them. Surprise! It was paid for by Rounds!
Stace said people got calls from a push poll slandering him with PP's made up story about hiding in the bathroom on a vote. I think it more likely that Republican leadership chose to hold the vote while he was in the bathroom just to be d**ks.