that actually offered the choice of third party or sitting it out
Well, there is the Republican party with some conservative members and some not so conservative and then there's the evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party. I'd rather have a conservative Republican in office, but I'll take a not so conservative Republican over any evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat any day of the week. And I might express my unhappiness with some of his policies but I think I've learned my lesson about irreversibly trashing the Republican office holder or the Republican base or the party itself (at least not too much trashing). As they say, the alternative is unthinkable.
"And, certainly you don't think a FR poll is representative of the real GOP, do you?"
No, I don't. But it appears as if more than just a few people are freaking out over it. The subsequent poll, the one you posted, is a classic push poll, forcing a false decision. If the previous poll were so easily dismissed, why the need to gauge the depth of negative sentiment by polarizing the options?