This morning, many political junkies, bleary-eyed from staying up to watch and then ponder the president’s SCOTUS Reality Show last night, were greeted with this tweet from the CEO of Axios:
🚨 Brutal poll: Democrats’ Senate dream slips away https://t.co/bXZ4wiwqn5
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) July 10, 2018
The full Axios article shows polling data from 13 Senate races, with Democrats leading in nine of them, which is not what you’d expect in a poll that is “brutal” for them. …Axios is hardly the only political observer that sometimes exaggerates or cherry-picks polling data to pull the excited or the frightened into a click. CONT.
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine