Poll Dancing

Apparently Dan has been bragging about the latest poll in which he is only down by 5%, with 40% of people undecided.  Just one problem - that poll doesn't exist.

[W]e think Onorato is making it up (unless it’s one of his campaign’s internal polls, in which case his pollsters are making it up). We checked out RealClearPolitics, whose average of all polling shows Corbett up 9.3 percent and not a single poll showing Onorato anywhere near “five points down.”


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Onorato also claimed 40 percent of voters are still undecided. Except. The latest poll, by Rasmussen, says that number’s more like 8 percent.

Now, for those of us who live in Allegheny County, this is nothing new.  Dan habitually pulls numbers either out of thin air, and those numbers are always on his side.  Whether it be the $390 million subway tunnel (actual cost: $529 million), the Port Authority-saving 10% drink tax (we have a surplus?  Make it a 7% drink tax! Oops... Port Authority is broke again.  Maybe a sales tax?)  or the "hundreds of thousands" of Shale jobs that total in Dan's own later statement is just 80,000, Dan sells policy like he would sell a used car.  There is always a catch, and often that catch is "bad numbers".

Should we be surprised that his next fundraiser is with Bill Clinton and Ed Rendell, two men whose relationship with the truth can politely be described as "rocky"?