Phantom Polling
One of the great irritants I get when watching talking heads opining on cable news programs is how often they assert what America thinks, and how, insanely, when enough pundits assert it, it becomes conventional wisdom, even when nobody asked America, or they did and America asserted quite to the contrary. Iraq is a big example of this over the last few years, but not the only one.
Here’s some (more) phantom polling conducted by Andrea Mitchell. Josh Marshall takes a whack at the softball, video-blogging style: