PPP basically showed Walker up 5 on Barrett, but they took the third candidate out for no reason other than making the race look closer. Hackish move.
Walker could maybe win by 10. 15 is pretty difficult considering the thousands of operatives from other states running around here. I presume they have some effect boosting Barrett numbers.
No, they took the 3rd party candidate out for their final poll, because they don't want a repeat of the New York special election, where that unknown Socialist polled 5% or so and ended up with 0.5% PPP said then that they won't include useless Independent candidates in their final polls, because they always poll higher in the pre-election polls, but on election day the voters won't waste their votes on these joke candidates. That has nothing to do with "boosting Barrett's numbers".