Public Policy Polling or PPP as it is known is one of the oft-cited polling organizations in America. Lately, I have been looking at the results of PPP polls and have found a clear pattern of results that seem greatly skewed towards the Democrats. Today we have another instance of this phenomenon. In the Ohio senate race between the incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown and teh Republican challenger State Treasurer Josh Mandel, PPP released a poll yesterday that showed Brown up by 10 points over Mandel (47 to 37%). Today, Rasmussen released a poll in that same race that shows a 44 to 44 tie. Both polls are of likely voters, and both cover essentially the same time period. There is no reason for a ten point difference in results here. Indeed, the difference is far outside the margin of error.
It is always possible that the PPP poll is accurate and that the Rasmussen poll is just way off, but I doubt it. In state after state, the PPP polls have given results in the Obama/Romney race that swing the election significantly towards Obama. This is different from all the other polls.
The time has come for the media to stop reporting the PPP polls in my opinion. They are meaningless. They add nothing to the conversation.
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