here is the poll question where Bernie is the most popular

[Fresh_Start]

Now we will show you some names. Please indicate if you have a favorable
or unfavorable view of that person - or if you've never heard of them.

Bernie Sanders 1220
54%
Mike Pence 991
44%
Hillary Clinton 949
42%
Donald Trump 926
41%
Elizabeth Warren 843
37%
Paul Ryan 758
33%
Nancy Pelosi 704
31%
Rex Tillerson 650
29%
Jeff Sessions 634
28%
Chuck Schumer 630
28%
Mitch McConnell 441
19%
Stephen Bannon 377
17%


Doesn't look anywhere near all politicians were choices on this poll.
Can we stop flaunting this poll now?


http://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HHP-August-Wave_Topline-Memo_Total-Only_Registered-Voters.pdf

[MineralMan]

1. Clearly, Bernie Sanders is a popular politician.

I'm not sure what that means, though. I think he'll probably win his re-election bid in 2018, though, without any trouble. Otherwise, I'm not sure why that online poll has any relevance.

I like Bernie. He's a good Senator. I hope he continues to contribute there.

[choie]

2. Um... I think

Any politician would love to be 10% higher in popularity than his closest competitor. Maybe you should stop trying so hard to denigrate Bernie Sanders.

[delisen]

3. Schumer ties with Sessions in this odd 12-person popularity contest

Wonder if he thinks it a credible survey-or if he cares.

I wonder how much money Mark Penn makes for "supervising" the Harris Online Poll.

Instead of elections maybe every November we should just run an online popularity poll. Most popular person wins the office.

Sort of like having Most Popular contestant in beauty pageant automatically become Miss America or whatever.

[Me.]

4. Mark Penn?

No wonder

[delisen]

5. Mark Penn is listed as "supervisor" of the Harris Poll.

He has a gig teaching polling at Harvard, and has teamed up with a professor who is part of the Center for American Progress.

The Hill claims to have an exclusive for reporting on some of the Harris polls.

The Harris Poll donates its results to the Center For American Progress. As far as I can figure our this is the only reason it is being referred to as the Harvard-Harris poll.

The Harris Poll has a website and seems to be a tacky online marketing survey company that offers its "member" pollees money, gift cards, rewards, and sweepstakes entries for filling out questionnaires online.

They do claim to use proper polling techniques but the site seems so seedy.

In any car, using this poll to claim that Sanders is the most popular politician in America seems be misleading---but this the era of fake news.

[Me.]

9. Anything Connected To Penn

makes me suspicious....how much money did he gleam from this?

"In any car, using this poll to claim that Sanders is the most popular politician in America seems be misleading---but this the era of fake news"

Quite agree.

[kacekwl]

6. And your point is ?

[OilemFirchen]

7. The pre-Sanders presidential pick amongst the Purity Patrol is four points less popular than Trump.

That seems reasonable.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Like all online polls, this is meaningless

Enough of Sanders already.