In a recent Ron Paul interview on CNN Wolf Blitzer told him the KY race was tied at 46%?

Of course it's deliberate. I'm not even a huge fan of Rand Paul (though I regard his Dad as nothing less than a living legend), yet I favor him (Rand) infinitely over any opponent simply because he's not an insider and all the others are.

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Of course it was deliberate. By September, the norm is to poll only 'likely voters' because by then you can pretty accurately tell who those will be (earlier, not so much). CNN/Time polled 'registered voters' which include motor voter registrations from decades ago. Even RealClearPolitics, a CNN/Time organization itself said that round of CNN/Time polls were 'outliers even for registered voter polls'. Conway's campaign and part of the less realistic leftist echo chamber are still repeating them madly, but serious people discount them.

'Likely voters' typically skew more Republican in any year, and this year skew WAY more Republican. SUSA, the second poll you cite, is the MOST accurate poll for polling Kentucky there is. Every time a poll came out showing Rand Paul in the lead, all the left blogs out in KY would chime, "No, wait for Survey USA!!"

Well, guess what, it came in with Rand Paul leading by 15 points, and within days Rasmussen confirmed it. And for those who don't track this, Rasmussen is currently LESS effusive about GOP candidates than most major polls.

Rand is leading far enough that even Dem papers have started admitting he has some good points and that his opponent is a 'political insider' from 'central casting'.

Seen the Nation, lately?

http://www.thenation.com/article/154605/rand-pauls...

(P.S. my linking the nation doesn't mean it is right on all of Rand's positions, for example he still says he won't commit his vote for majority leader. However, since McConnell already has the votes for that, it doesn't matter much in the next go round.)

Yes, it was deliberate... to try and make it look like it isn't going to be a landslide victory for Dr. Paul. (But it will be.)

And "Tagboy",

The reason middle Americans vote republican is because they believe in the platform. Republicans have the right platform, they just don't follow it for the most part... except for Ron and Rand Paul. of course.

Most Americans are God-fearing Christians, pro-life, pro-capitalism and anti-socialist. We like our freedom and we want to be able to bear arms in order to protect that freedom.

And if you think for one second that Obama and the liberals in Congress aren't "taking care of big business and the rich and screwing us" just as much as the republicans, then you really need to lay off the kool-aid. Obama is in Goldman-Sach's back pocket.

The good doctors both hold the same view as most of middle America...

Stop spending us into oblivion and leave us alone. We'll make our own way without the hand of big government taking care of us from cradle to grave, and controlling our every move.

The real question is why would anyone vote democrat. The democrats currently in power are nothing but communist revolutionaries who believe the U.S. is the cause of all the problems in the world.

I use polls to tell me where something is heading,I HOWEVER don,t stalk bank on it,you have to coinsider where and how said poll was done and regardless of those facts you still have to wonder out of all poled how many will actually show up to vote,,so I take it all with a grain of salt ,Rassmusen in pretty good been around awhile but I also purposely look at a left leaning poll and give or take a point its about right from both perspectives..

it doesn't matter if it was or wasn't because there is nothing you or i could do about it if it was

just get out and vote for the guy if the people in power don't like some one that's the best endorsement a regular person can have to go out and support em'

No, this wasn't deliberate. CNN is relatively incompetent, and Rasmussen is a slightly Right-leaning polling organization.

Of course it was deliberate. CNN, like many media outlets, will try to marginalize any political candidate that doesn't share their ideology.

Wasn't Rasputin an evil magician, so why would anyone believe his poll? Oh, sorry, you meant Rasmutant, his brother who creates polls for Republicans.

If Ron Paul wins it will be like a dream that finally came true.

http://www.ronpaulforcongress.com/html/issues.html

How can anyone argue with someone like that.

I think the media knows they control the flow of information and many times (not every) they slant things towards their bias, which is almost entirely liberal.