The result would have been meaningless if Drudge had run the poll asking, "Who won tonight's debate?", when the event didn't include the leading contender for the nomination.
It would have been fair, but pointless, so he asked a different question which prompted a valuable measure of the public's view of the candidates.
“The result would have been meaningless if Drudge had run the poll asking, “Who won tonight’s debate?”, when the event didn’t include the leading contender for the nomination.”
So an Indy 500 race where the leading points getter doesn’t run, it’s meaningless to even show or report on the subsequent race and who rightfully won, because after all, the leading driver never did contend? Yeah, right.