I know what you’re going to say. It’s an online poll. The sample is small, just 277 Republican voters. That means a margin of error north of six percent. Why should we trust a poll like that?

Well, you should trust it if you trusted it back in August when this same poll pronounced Trump’s lead sturdy after the first GOP presidential debate. That was an online poll too. Sample size: 278 Republicans, for an MOE of 6.7 percent. A lot of Trump fans at the time declared that de facto proof that the best laid plans of Fox News and Megyn Kelly to sink the unsinkable Trump had failed miserably.

How about now, on a day when another national poll is also suddenly showing a Ben Carson lead?

Read the article “Reuters National Online Poll of Likely Voters: Carson 33, Trump, 26, Rubio 10, Cruz 8” on hotair.com.