“You are right there, a snapshot of how the media can manipulate numbers to create a story, as the previous posts have pointed out.”
Then show us how they were manipulated. You’ve spen this entire thread claiming the CNN article doesn’t match the poll then quote the numbers for repubs in the poll when the comment in question referred only to TP members and supporters.
I looked at what was offered regarding the poll and couldn’t find where the TP numbers were broken out but the TP question was asked so those numbers should be available to the pollster and client.
I already did in several posts- CNN ignored almost every single line item in that poll, took one of the sample groups by age that, and misrepresented that data as reflecting an ideological group- even though the break down by ideology contradicts the story.
You could take that picking and choosing numbers from that report and say Palin has a strong lead, or heck, even Huckabee is winning depending on what you pick.
It was, however, highly misleading to take just a demographic line item of people 50 and over and spin it to say she has lost tea party support.