Conservative Pollsters: Pennsylvanians Favor Casey & Rendell (And Are Terrified Of Bush and, Uh, Terror)

A release came over from Strategic Vision, an Atlanta-based PR firm, touring their three-day poll of 1200 likely voters in Pennsylvania. The CEO of Strategic Vision is David E. Johnson, who touts himself on his website as a “Republican conservative” — uhh, and he has a “Re-Elect Bush/Cheney” banner on his woefully outdated website — which means it’s a pretty safe bet that Strategic Vision’s polls lean slightly to the right. (Especially since all the Johnson quotes in the press release are pro-Republican.)

The new Pennsylvania polls don’t really tell us anything all that new: Casey is 10 points ahead (50-40) and Rendell 13 points ahead (59-36). That puts Santorum much closer — but it’s still a comfortable lead — but, considering the source, yadda yadda yadda. You get how these things work.

But, since it’s a de facto Republican polling agency, you would think they’d be able to do a little better for their guy than a 26 percent approval rating. (Last month, a Quinnipac University poll put Bush at 34 percent approval rating.) This is, probably, lower than the percentage of Phillies fans who thought the team handled the Brett situation well. And 70 percent of Pennsylvanians polled expect a terrorist attack by the end of the year.

To summarize: A polling group whose CEO is a big Republican backer released a poll where, in Pennsylvania, Casey and Rendell are way ahead, President Bush only has a 26 percent approval rating and 70 percent expect a terrorist attack in the United States between now and the end of the year.

Well. With those last two results, I think we’ll be seeing an exodus to Vanatu any day now.

Pennsylvania Poll - July [Strategic Vision]
Press Release Regarding Poll [.pdf download]
Putting a Number on Happiness [WSJ]