Y’all are doing it again. Not all of you. But a good number of you are obsessing over Republican primary polls. What’s more, some of you are getting lured in by operatives pushing polls from a certain angle that doesn’t provide the full picture.
I know better than to hope for widespread sanity in reporting on the horse race, but I’m still going to put out the plea. Please think critically about the numbers and arguments presented, whether you’re a reporter being fed numbers by a partisan pollster that is shopping them around or you’re a reader consuming what that reporter wrote up. …
Also, please remember that no one votes for a long time. We are approaching the time when candidates need to decide whether they will run and donors must decide whom to support, but we are nowhere near the time when public opinion on the race is settled. CONTINUED
Natalie Jackson, National Journal
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