MSNBC IS WITH HER
Kristen Welker, Brian Fallon - Stronger Together

Of some 20 online polls available in the hours after the presidential debate at Hofstra University, Donald Trump carried all, often by remarkable margins. Among these were not only ones he would be expected to do well in, given their audiences (such as Drudge and Gateway Pundit), but also more mainstream venues like Time, the Hill, and CNBC. 

But never mind objective facts -- dishonest partisan hacks have paychecks to earn.

The morning after, Hillary's National Press Secretary Brian Fallon laughed to MSNBC, "Even Breitbart...had a poll showing Hillary Clinton was the winner, last night."

He was no doubt referencing a Breitbart/Gravis "flash poll" conducted immediately following the candidate exchange.

Given that Fallon was familiar with that poll, he knew as he spoke to Andrea Mitchell Presents guest host Kristen Welker that Hillary enjoyed only a 5 point lead over Trump (barely outside the margin of error), and that almost no undecideds selected a candidate as a result of watching the debate. 

The 2% of previously undecided who did settle on a choice picked Trump. No undecideds polled chose Fallon/MSNBC's preferred aspirant, Hillary.

Just as Fallon spoke not of these inconvenient for Hillary details, Welker did not ask after them. (A review of tweets she posted during the Hofstra encounter found numerous ones critical of Trump but none similarly negative of Clinton. Positively flabbergasting.)

That Breitbart/Gravis "flash poll" was soundly put away by an online Breitbart poll also conducted in the post-debate hours.

I had cast a Trump poll vote at Breitbart the evening of the debate. And I'd seen then that Trump was far ahead. I rechecked the Breitbart poll results after hearing Fallon on MSNBC; it had by then grown to Trump 75.72%, Clinton 24.28%.

Now, not too much should be made of Brian Fallon's studied misrepresentation. Dishonesty is what he does. But MSNBC headline regurgitator Welker's abetting his dirtiness neatly illustrates a point Trump had made at Hofstra:

"I think the best person in [Hillary's] campaign is the mainstream media!"

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(Note: In CNN's post-debate poll -- and only in CNN's poll -- Hillary Clinton won out. Clinton News Network on-camera functionaries brayed straight-facedly of the dubious results the following day. But InfoWars noted that while CNN's poll figure included 41% Democrats, it had only 26% Republican representation. That's called rigging. The network is notoriously an ideologically-choreographed island of misfit make-believers whose silly and slanted claims are discounted by thoughtful observers.)