Much excitement has been generated today by the silliest poll-like object I’ve seen that’s not by Overtime Strategies. I speak of course of the bogosity by the conservative Washington Free Beacon publication that has been hyped from here to Charing Cross because it allegedly shows Hillary and Bernie tied in the run-up to the Nevada caucus.
Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert has examined this poll-like object and found it wanting, and not just because of its highly questionable numbers. As a perusal of the loaded questions shows, this thing was designed as a classic Republican “push poll” and it’s designed to make both Sanders and Clinton look bad:
If I were a Bernie fan, I wouldn’t be hyping this poll-like object.