We’re well into this 2016 election season and it has seriously felt like one big science experiment, but instead of lab rats and monkeys, it’s us – innocent and defenseless human beings. Our principals, ideologies and, especially, our patience continue to be tested by two mad scientists guised as presidential candidates – Donald Trump and …

Question: If you’re a political candidate and you release an “internal” poll that has you up 19 points on your opponent, what should you do? A. Immediately loan your campaign $200,000 and hope nobody notices? B. Release another “internal” poll a few days later that has you up by 345 …

Donald Trump, most known for his hair and inability to use spray tan correctly, recently appeared in a New Hampshire presidential poll. [surprise] Time is reporting that New Hampshire residents were polled by telephone last month to test their feelings about multiple 2012 Republican candidates. Some 30 questions in the …

A new Gallup Poll finds a record-low 28% of American voters say most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected. [snap] “The same poll finds 49% of voters, a near-record low, saying their own member of Congress deserves to be re-elected. This marks only the second time since Gallup began …

Some polls are just completely unnecessary: A new poll gave the District’s snow removal efforts a failing grade. According to the poll, most people say D.C.’s mayor Adrian Fenty is to blame. [landslide] Stay tuned for the “Will the Nats win the World Series?” poll. H/T – DCist

UPDATE: The NRCC won with 67% of the vote. Not to be outdone by the NRCC, the NRSC just dropped a creative new ad.  [ahem, Ambinder] Which leads us to this – which video is better?  [poll below] Which web video is better?(survey software)

According to a new Washington Post poll, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s approval rating has plummeted over the past two years, with support eroding in all parts of the city and across demographic groups, particularly among African Americans. Fenty’s good news can be seen here.

According to MSNBC last night, the late Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, is trailing NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a recent poll. MediaBistro’s TVNewser discovered humorous error and as poster Kevin Allocca pointed out, Harold Ford Jr. has served as an MSNBC political analyst. [busting news] For …

Twitter, at least on Capitol Hill, may be more popular than the wrap line in Longworth, but according to a Vanity Fair poll , the American public at large is not yet sold on the microblogging site.  [via the Twiter Room] Only 15 percent of Americans believe that Twitter is …

Ever wake up after a late night of drinking and realize that you parked your car in your neighbor’s yard, slept in your clothes [on the floor] and your cell phone is sitting in a blender filled with beer? Yeah, well Jim Zorn feels worse than that this morning. Now …