Hillary Clinton is up 6 points on Donald Trump in the latest Reuters-Ipsos poll.

She leads Donald Trump 45-39.

But, once again, the sampling data tells a different story.

Here are the numbers:

1228 – Dem –45%

934 – Rep –34%

329 – Ind –12%

Independents make up 43% of the population in a 2015 Gallup poll.

And Republicans were (as usual) under-sampled in the poll.

So the pollsters oversampled Democrats by 11 points to give Hillary a 6 point lead.

They got the result they wanted – a big HiLLARY lead.