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 :The opinion poll is not from FOX News - it is from internal Republican sources leaked to FOX. At any rate, the poll is highly negative toward the Republican Party - which one would certainly not expect to ordinarily hear from FOX. That makes it, if anything, a bit more plausible - if FOX is reporting bad news for the GOP, it's GOT to be bad. I hope you would recognize the limitations inherent in TradeSports - it samples nobody and simply fluctuates with the various media, punditry and, yes, POLLS. Where would TradeSports be without polls? Lost, I imagine. TradeSports is essentially a finger on the pulse of ""conventional wisdom."" Useful, certainly, but not as useful as a well-designed scientific public opinion poll. Remember, we are writing for the reader. What will the reader understand better - that some thing called ""tradesports"" he's never heard of has ""lower value"" on the GOP, or that two opinion polls have shown highly negative results for the GOP?  "