Tea Party Express Brings the Funny With Mock Poll Results

(Elizabeth Crum/The Blog) – A gold star goes to the Tea Party Express for putting out this clever tongue-in-cheek press release this week:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JUNE 4, 2010
CONTACT: TOOTH FAIRY
SHOCKING EXIT POLL RESULTS RELEASED BY TEA PARTY EXPRESS

The Tea Party Express joined every other campaign above Dog Catcher in releasing our exclusive Exit Poll results from Early Voting.

The Exit Poll data showed similar results to those released by the U.S. Senate campaigns of Danny Tarkanian and Sue Lowden:

DANNY TARKANIAN: 135%

SUE LOWDEN: 129%

SHARRON ANGLE: 36%

OTHERS: 9%

REFUSED: 5%

The margin of error on the poll was +/- 95%.

“We’ve given it our best effort, but clearly we cannot compete with the other U.S. Senate campaigns and their constantly rising internal poll results,” said Bryan J. Shroyer, Political Director of the Tea Party Express.

“We thought Sharron Angle could win this campaign by securing roughly 35% of the vote, but clearly the Lowden and Tarkanian campaigns long ago passed those numbers in their own internal polling and are set for a historic election finish winning more than 100% of the vote each.

“We failed. We thought we were doing well with Angle’s initial surge until the competing camps corrected us and denied the surge. We then thought we were doing good as independent polls showed us running neck-and-neck with Sue Lowden until we were corrected by the other campaigns that no we weren’t. And with new independent polls showing Angle surging ahead to first-place, we are grateful to the Lowden and Tarkanian campaigns for once again setting us straight.”

Ha!