It was a push poll, and it’s so bad, even the Post knows it. The only lesson some progressives have learned from the previous cult-of-personality mistake is… they just need a different personality! Why on earth would you think this encourages Liz Warren to run against Clinton when it doesn’t mean what you insist it means?
MoveOn.org wants Elizabeth Warren to run for president — so much so that it has commissioned a poll with the very clear purpose of making Warren’s potential candidacy look as good as possible.
Mission accomplished. The just-released poll from YouGov shows Warren ahead of Clinton 31 percent to 24 percent in Iowa and 30-27 in New Hampshire.
How do you get results so far afield of any polling we’ve seen to date? You say a bunch of positive/liberal-friendly things about Warren before you ask the head-to-head question.
In fairness to MoveOn, the group discloses up-front that this is what’s known as an “informed ballot” — i.e. information is shared about candidates before the head-to-head question is asked. MoveOn emphasizes that no negative information is shared about the other candidates (including Clinton), which is a trick often used in such polling.
“What we have here is failure to communicate.”
MoveOn.org really isn’t interested in getting Warren to run for president. They know damn well that Warren isn’t presidential material. They also know that with Warren’s lack of political experience she would be eaten alive within 5 minutes by the sharks if she agreed to run.
What MoveOn.org and the Left is up to is the utter destruction of Clinton.
Bernie Sanders in 2016.
I think Warren would make an excellent President. Unfortunately I also think she’ll be desperately needed in the Senate. Clinton, I’ve always seen as Obama with boobs: Democrat in name only. Who else in the Democratic Party has shown ANY ability or leadership. It doesn’t help that “The Media” (I guess that’s as good a pejorative as any, since journalism is extinct) have ignored Dems (except Hillary and the ‘Blah’ in the White House) for twenty years, while allowing any lunatic Rethug with a rant in support of forced insemination hours of air time to spew their treason.