Commentary: Chaz Molder's Recent Poll Gives Voters a Big Reason to Not Trust the Columbia Democrat

Commentary: Chaz Molder's Recent Poll Gives Voters a Big Reason to Not Trust the Columbia Democrat

Mark Twain famously published that "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Were Twain with us today he might add a fourth type of lie - political polling. Specifically, those polls released for public consumption. Most campaign polling is internal, unpublicized, and genuinely used by campaigns to understand where a race stands. You will likely never hear about most of it, because that isn't its purpose. These are legi…