PPP has a practice of asking "trouble-making" questions in their polling sets, so this seems right up their alley.

I grant that it is plenty weird enough to be satire, but in context I think this is indeed part of their Ohio poll results.

The actual poll question and results:

You have to look further into the poll at the cross-tab pages.

Look at page 15

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_OH_9912.pdf


On page 15 it shows

Republicans said:

Obama 38%
Romney 15%
Not Sure 47%

Note: And 1% of Democrats said it was Romney.

Here: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_OH_9912.pdf

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1309551

I took that at face value, without investigating myself. (My bad )

I also was aware of PPP getting a deluge of outraged wingnut comments and responding with humor:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021309217

It's hard to take the Romney responses seriously. Maybe some respondents were punking the pollster, and/or Romney supporters simply were selecting only answers that were positive for their candidate.

In any case, I was wrong, and you're right. Those are the official poll results.

ALSO

Still, I was wrong.

And I also want to thank you for all the great work you do here, Tx4obama.

And don't feel bad, we've all been wrong at one time or another here.

Maybe GOP in general. Just an indication 15% are hardcore assholes.
Same question asked in NC with 56% unsure.

and 15% are sure that it is Romney who is more responsible than Obama for killing bin Laden?

He ran there over 40 mountains and killed Bin Laden with his bare teeth.

Do 15% of Ohio Republicans think Romney killed bin Laden? Probably not.
Posted by Dylan Matthews on September 10, 2012 at 9:32 am

Public Policy Polling has a new poll (pdf) out of Ohio showing Obama with his biggest lead since May. Given how hard it would be for Mitt Romney to win the White House without winning Ohio, that’s a big deal.
But a secondary finding in the poll has gotten a lot of attention. PPP asked voters who they thought deserved more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Obama or Romney. 63 percent said Obama, 31 percent weren’t sure, and 6 percent said Romney.
The results for Republican voters were even more astonishing. 38 percent said Obama, 47 percent weren’t sure, and 15 percent said Romney. What the heck is going on?
My best guess is one dash psychological trickery, and a healthy portion of sampling error. There’s a huge literature in political science on the extent to which surveys like this capture true public opinion, and another literature on the extent to which peoples’ ideologies affect their interpretation of objective fact, and both do a lot to explain the Romney-killed-bin Laden finding.

more
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/10/do-15-of-ohio-republicans-think-romney-killed-bin-laden-probably-not/