Here we go, again.
Normally, when we see a poll that is suspect, we shake a little (or a lot) of salt on it. Not today.
Once again, the struggling Jay Collins campaign — amid an embarrassing debate performance, press coverage of secret social media accounts attacking DeSantis, a failed court case, and the pathetic “I swear at any moment the Governor is going to endorse me” pandering — has released another internal poll. It shows Collins closing the gap on Donalds, though still losing by double-digit margins. The poll diverges sharply from other polls making the rounds.
So today, Collins’ latest poll gets the whole shaker.
Other polls are directly contradicting Collins’ polling claim that he’s notched 30% support in the GOP Primary.
The poll aggregator 270toWin has Donalds comfortably ahead of Collins, 45% to 10%, while Real Clear Politics has it at 48% to 8%. These polling aggregator websites evaluate independent polls and only post those from reputable pollsters using tried-and-true polling techniques.
No surprise: the latest Collins poll isn’t being taken seriously by any of them.
Why? Because according to the latest Collins text-to-web poll, all those other third-party polls are way off — and in fact Collins is closing the gap on Donalds (who is outspending him at least 5:1), sitting 20 points higher than other polls show, with four in 10 voters leaning his way.
A grain of salt doesn’t seem to do this poll justice, especially when the press release calls Collins the “clear conservative choice.”
I’m sorry, what?
Even if you believe the Collins campaign — and frankly, I do not — his own poll still shows him 16 points behind. Maybe he should have called himself the “clear second choice.” That, at least, would be accurate, even if “second choice” still loses.
As always, treat a campaign-produced and campaign-released poll with a grain of salt, or in this case, the entire dinner-ruining shaker. When a campaign tries to spin a losing battle as a winning effort, you don’t need a mountain of salt — you need a dash of common sense.
Now who’s up for takeout?
