How polling stories show only part of the picture

From Columbia Journalism Review Thu Oct 9 2014, 15:46:16

By David Uberti Scott Clement didn't believe it. In the midst of the government shutdown last year, the Washington Post polling analyst learned news that Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican spearheading the GOP's push to defund Obamacare, cited a self-commissioned poll to argue that the fight in Congress actually boosted his party's position. That wasn't quite what Clement and The Post's...

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