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Mini Poll: My Akin Heart
 Supporters and opponents of the continuing US Senate candidacy of Republican US Rep. Todd Akin have a pair of statewide political polls to support their view that he should stay in – or drop out of – his campaign to unseat Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. A poll released Monday night by a firm that normally leans towards Democrats showed Mr. Akin with a small lead. A poll released today by a Republican-leaning firm showed Ms. McCaskill with a comfortable lead.
Certainly, both polls could be accurate or both wrong. Between the continuing local, national, and international attention paid to controversial remarks Mr. Akin made last weekend and the normal margin of error of polling, it is something of a stretch to conclude that six points of difference means that two respected polling firms are slanting their data to influence a candidate’s decision.
This week’s Mini-Poll does not claim to be anything more than what it is: a survey of self-selected readers of Mayor Slay’s website and emails.
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