Very interesting post by Dylan Matthews in yesterday's Washington Post about a recent Public Policy Polling report from Ohio. The most surprising response to polling questions was that 15% of Republicans polled expressed the opinion that Romney was responsible for the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
How could that be?
Matthews examines some relevant scholarly analysis of polling and presents some possible explanations. He summarizes the analysis: "....voters have trouble crediting politicians they don’t
like for policy outcomes they do like. And killing bin Laden is a policy
outcome they do like. And so partisan effects have led some Republicans
to argue that Obama was not primarily responsible for killing bin Laden
or, even more absurdly, that Romney was responsible."
I recommend the whole article. It is also worthwhile reading the referenced scholarly articles as well.
It explains why a campaign operative might say "we won't let our campaign be driven by fact checkers."
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