Raz is up to its usual twisting and spinning.
Yes, they have a new poll out.
Here's the bottom line:
Clinton 50%
Sanders 24%
Not Sure 10%
Other 9%
Webb 2%
O'Malley 2%
Chaffee 2%
But go below the copulating treble clefs to see how they sell it.
Sanders Gains Big As Clinton Falls
Yup. That's the headline. You see, Sanders "had only four percent (4%) support nine months ago." Yeah. Nine months ago. When he wasn't running. When the answer to "Sanders?" was "who?" Yeah, that's a perfectly honest finding.
Raz also tells us:
belief that Clinton is likely to be next year's Democratic presidential nominee has dropped noticeably over the past month.
Wow! She must be totally cratering! What kind of numbers are we talking about? Is it down to 30%, even 20%?!
Ummmm, no.
The latest Hillary Meter shows that 63% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that Clinton is likely to be the next Democratic presidential candidate
Yes, that's down from 78%, but it's still
SIXTY-THREE PERCENT!
But of course, there's no reason to believe there were any push-poll type questions, right?
Well, not really. Because:
Forty-six percent (46%) of all voters - and 24% of Democrats - think Clinton should suspend her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination until all of the legal questions about her use of the private e-mail server are resolved.
If you keep scrolling down, eventually you will find out that:
Forty-six percent (46%) of all voters - and 24% of Democrats - think Clinton should suspend her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination until all of the legal questions about her use of the private e-mail server are resolved.
And here's a hidden little gem, one that doesn't have an attention grabbing "dropped noticeably" or "Clinton falls" lede:
The number of voters who believe Clinton's email is a "serious scandal" has dropped among all voters from 54% to 45%, and is at only 18% among Democrats.
It's just Raz being Raz, but when we cut through the crap what do we find?
Clinton's support among likely Democratic voters doubles that of Sanders, 2/3 of all voters expect Clinton to be the Democratic nominee, and it looks like the Republicans and the media (including Raz in this poll) played their hand early and overplayed it hard on eGhazi.