Gun Owners Rips Polling Agency: A Cheap Prostitute for Bloomberg, Gun-Grab Crowd

A great Gun Owners of America (GOA) article shreds Public Policy Polling’s (PPP) alleged gun-control poll numbers, revealing that the polling company “has worked hand-in-glove with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an effort to pass gun control.”

The article, “Twenty Reasons Why the PPP Results are Fraudulent,” concludes that “like a cheap prostitute, PPP has left its lipstick all over the bed.”

Among the twenty reasons, the article shows that “PPP differs violently from every other major polling organization,” including CBS, Quinnpac, and the highly-esteemed Pew Research. Yet PPP is the poll all the pundits and leftist politicians are referring to. Why? We know why.

Another of GOA’s twenty reasons caught my eye:

PPP and MAIG polling contradicts everything Senators have heard from their constituents.

According to PPP and MAIG, 94% of all North Dakotans support the Toomey-Schumer-Manchin provision.

Yet, calls jammed Heidi Heitkamp’s phone lines, and they were 7-to-1 in opposition to Toomey, according to Heitkamp.  And North Dakota doesn’t have that many people.  So that notion that the in-state callers were just a small subset of the population is pure fiction.

The same is true with most swing senators.  Turnout at [Kelley] Ayotte’s town halls, for example, is reportedly predominantly pro-gun, notwithstanding the impression you would get from the biased TV coverage.  And, when you exclude the anti-gunners bussed in from Connecticut with Bloomberg-funded pre-printed signs, the pro-gun turnout is even more dramatic.

On April 30, Chuck Todd pointed out, correctly, that PPP is starkly conflicting with senators’ own internal polling.

Just how bad is PPP off? It even went so far as to claim that between 70 and 90 percent of GOA’s own members supported universal background checks. Gun Owners shows just how big a howler this really is for them and the NRA as well:

NRA conducted a scientific poll and found that only 5% of their members supported universal background checks.

GOA conducted an informal poll in which 24,866 of its members actually voted.  GOA found that only 4% of its members supported “Obama’s universal background checks” — a figure almost identical to NRA’s. Note that, except for the addition of the word “Obama’s,” we used Bloomberg’s lexicon in describing the Toomey proposal.

Click here to read the full article of 20 reasons.

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