Whether you FeeltheBern or YourWithHer, trying to make sense out of this primary seasons’ polls is enough to give you a nose bleed. After the debacle of polling versus votes in Michigan, I am (like many others) skeptical and suspicious of polling data. Despite Nate Silver’s 538.com polling mea culpa and declaration that Michigan was “a fluke, an anomaly”, I can’t help but feel more anxiety this time around. I want my candidate to win but find pollsters methods a little dubious and intentionally dishonest. Take for example Huffington Posts Pollster site. Graphs for state primary polls and general election polls differ between Democrats and Republicans. Both measure on the y-axis (dependent variable) in measures of 20. But the Republican graphs begin with 10 while Democrats’ graph is 20. This causes a bigger gap between Republican candidates and a smaller gap between Democratic candidates. Trump looks like he’s running away with it when polled against his closest rival, where, with the exact same percentage spread, Sanders looks excitingly closer to Clinton. It is intentional. It is meant to create feelings of “OMG he’s running away with it” or “You know, she isn’t that far ahead”. There are quite a few more examples on other sites. The pie charts on 270toWin.com show lot’s of undecided space...more than the % really should be. A big yellow pie slice when the slice would be barely visible if done correctly. No wonder I am twitchy. I think we’re being messed with.