Benjy Sarlin on how Public Policy Polling used an impressive track record and whacky poll questions to become the “it” Democratic polling outfit.

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Events are unfolding rapidly in Libya, where rebel forces have advanced into Tripoli. Muammar Qaddafi is promising to fight to the last ‘drop of blood’, but it now seems clear that the end of his rule, in whatever form it comes, could be little more than hours away.

What do you make of the new hard-hittin’, tough-tweetin’ Jon Huntsman? We ran a piece on Friday asking whether the former Utah governor and Obama-appointed ambassador to China was even trying to win the nomination any more. Since then numerous emails have come in from readers who think he’s making a long play for the nomination in 2016.

That’s certainly a reasonable view. However, it’s possible there’s something else at work here, too. Read More