GA-SurveyUSA: Perdue +10% in primary

[Adam Griffin]

WARNING: JUNK POLL

SurveyUSA is a good pollster - particularly in Georgia over the past 6 years - but this is absolute garbage. I think the main issue is that 25% of those surveyed were reached via tablets/smartphones (ads, I presume).

Dr. Rad is not in 4th place in the Democratic primary, behind some guy who's raised less than $1,000 and has done no campaigning. Nunn isn't below 50%.

The GOP primary electorate will not be 15% non-white. 25% of the Dem primary electorate will not be in non-metro Atlanta north Georgia (those numbers were 5% and 8%, respectively, in 2010).

David Perdue has not jumped 15 points in the polls from his "Sonny 2.0" video. I will admit, however, to seeing the first Republican Senate primary yard sign in town today, and it was his (and it looks just like Sonny's old signs, LOL).

One (or both) of two things is going on here:

1) those polled know nothing about any of these candidates (random selection; the Dem primary race in particular, as the only thing that could produce those results is the good ol' "that name sounds farren ta me" concept)
2) crap methodology