A regular poll targets just about 1000 people in a selected demographic profile with loaded questions and comes to a result which they claim is plus or minus 3 %.

The Nation online poll (with just one single question) would have met that demographic spread at least 10 times over if not 20 times, except that it is restricted to readers on The Nation online.

The margin of error in this poll would be not more that plus or minus 1% of this category of the demography.

The percentages have steadily increased in favour of Dennis. Edwards got s short blip after the debate, but a poll which has been online for over 10 days is far more accurate than a telephone poll with a series of loaded questions.

And do read this alongside 189368 submissions to a form (so far) about issues and then you will see that Dennis is way head and shoulders above any other candidate.

http://www.dehp.net/candidate/stats.php

I am not American, I do not live in the US (also never been there), am not White, Black, Muslim or Jew but have an interest in the US election as it impacts the world, not your life-style in the US. But I listen to all major US Liberal Talk Show Hosts and this poll result of The Nation mirrors the opinion of almost every single major Liberal Talk Show Host in the US. So the beef was about online, and then it can be about Liberal Talk Show listeners, etc., etc., except the real error of corporate controlled media polls!