[Petronski]

Speaking of the big guy, perhaps a ping is in order.

Thompson is NOT tied for last in this poll, he’s statistically tied with Willard. The parenthetical in the title is false.

[dschapin]

With your method of interpretation no poll would ever mean anything. This poll shows a very consistant trend of Thompson losing support for this entire month untill Fred’s support going down met Huckabee’s support coming up. You can spin all day long like a top but it is not going to change the fact that Thompson’s campaign is in a total tailspin at the moment. I have to wonder if when Fred finally drops out of the race you will say that the media reports are simply a fraud and the Fred actually fights on.

[JRochelle]

Headline fixed!

I complained about it. I said this is a common tactic for Spiff. Lying is his strong suit.

[Spiff]

This is Rasmussen's Daily Tracking Poll chart. According to this chart, Thompson is tied for last place. Of the frontrunner candidates, the ones that are being tracked on charts and tables like this, Thompson is tied for last place with Huckabee for today's Rasmussen poll results. That's not a lie no matter how you want to paint it or how effective you are at having the thread title changed.

I don't like being called a liar as I'm not one. I can be wrong. I may be wrong here on the whole margin of error interpretation. You can call me wrong as I've been wrong before. But a liar, I am not.

And if you're going for the whole statistical tie thing (for the first time, might I add) then technically Thompson is now statistically tied (within 8 points, by your definition) with Ron Paul who is at 5% and one point above a statistical tie with the losers who are at 2%. It's a pointless argument and it cuts both ways.

[NYC Republican]

Best case scenario, statistically tied, worst-case, he’s 10 points behind Mitt... That’s the whole story