Possibly the dumbest poll question I've ever heard...

[© tweed]

Done by FOX News/Opinion Dynamics

"If you were voting in an election and all that you knew about the candidates for Congress, was that one was the incumbent -- that is, someone who currently holds that position -- and the other was the challenger, who would you be more inclined to vote for: the incumbent or the challenger?"

WTF kind of question is that?  The results by the way, Incumbent 21% Challenger 46% Unsure 33%

I understand that they're trying to illustrate that there's an anti-incumbent mood, but still...

[ATFFL]

Have you read BRTD's polls?

I know what they were getting at, and this is the first time I have seen someone try to get to that point.  The question, if people keep askig it, will evolve over time.

[Smash255]

Done by FOX News/Opinion Dynamics

"If you were voting in an election and all that you knew about the candidates for Congress, was that one was the incumbent and the other was the challenger, who would you be more inclined to vote for: the incumbent or the challenger?"

I don't understand why asking the question like that wasn't so hard to do......

[minionofmidas]

Compare poll result with US reality. Laugh. Hard.

[Brandon H]

I wonder how many of these people are going to end up voting for the incubment anyway.

[Alcon]

It's not so much the poll that's funny, as the results.

[angus]

Have you read BRTD's polls?

I know what they were getting at, and this is the first time I have seen someone try to get to that point.  The question, if people keep askig it, will evolve over time.

yes, I think it is meaningless till it has been asked for ten years or so and meaning read into the result.  I think it's an interesting question and may over time yield data worth considering.  and I also agree that it appears that Boss Tweed hasn't seen the many poll questions asked in this forum.