polls

It's a colorful term I hadn't heard before.

It's about taking a position that has limited support and believing that the majority must be with you simply because you've fallen in love with your own reasoning or, perhaps, because those in closest proximity are always telling you how right you are.

More on The Paul Ryan Watch.

“The people outside think you are the minority.” -- State GOP official Brian Schmming to people at a pro-Scott Walker rally at Madison's Alliant Center.

Earlier the same day, a poll sponsored by the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, found that Walker supporters are in the minority.

Cue Emily Litella.

Our friends at Rasmussen Reports, the Republican firm that seems to use its polls to help its GOP friends rather than sampling public opinion, is back with a national poll that says people back Scott Walker in his dispute with public employee unions here by a 48-38 margin.

Why, you might ask, didn't Rasmussen ask the people of Wisconsin, who might have a better idea of what the issue is and what's happening?  Most likely because that would not have produced the results they wanted.  They are, after all, in the business of helping the GOP.

And another poll last week found people here siding with the unions.

Besides using a nat