Even if so, that’s only 2 questions that are ‘negative’ vs. the other 8. Number 2 turned out to be a wash for Carson. Even if it was intended to be a “Negative” it wasn’t held against him not much whatsoever since Carson won the poll.
Enjoy Trump winning the GOP primary because that is going to happen in about 40 to 45 states.
Actually, the results tell a different story. A plurality found this unattractive in him.
But that is somewhat irrelevant to the question of whether this is a pro-Carson push poll.
Even though there are ambiguous questions where respondents were more favorable than not, they were objectively ambiguous, and those conducting the poll might well have expected that large numbers of respondents might feel negatively.
It would be as if a poll pointed to trump’s shuffles with McCain, Florida and others. Ask me about those, and I’ll respond with a negative valence. Ask a trump cultist, and one finds that’s actually part of the appeal to the cultist.
The question is inherently ambiguous.