Poll: 71 Percent Of Republicans Think Pollsters Are Skewing Results To Help Obama

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Poll trutherism is anything but a fringe belief among Republicans, a new poll released Tuesday shows.

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP), commissioned by Daily Kos and Service Employees International Union, shows that 71 percent of Republicans believe pollsters are deliberately skewing their results to produce a more favorable outcome for President Barack Obama.    Overall, voters are split: 42 percent said they believe pollsters are intentionally skewing their polls, compared with 40 percent who said they are not.

Skepticism over recent polls — many of which have shown Obama with a growing lead over Mitt Romney — has reached a fever pitch among conservatives, epitomized by a new right-wing website that provides “unskewed” results of polls.  

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