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The Fox News tweet was simple. It read: “A Fox News poll shows @realDonaldTrump has the best chance of beating @HillaryClinton in the election.” In our 140-character-driven communications world, the text purported to deliver a pretty straightforward finding: Trump, despite what many others were saying, has the best chance to beat Hillary Clinton in November.

The comments following the tweet went about as expected. Trump supporters celebrated the poll as empirical evidence that their beliefs had been verified. What else do you need? A poll showed Trump with the “best chance of beating Hillary Clinton.” Pay no mind to Larry Sabato and his team’s number-driven breakdown of the Electoral College that show an overwhelmingly easy and thorough Clinton victory in such a hypothetical match-up. This poll proved it all incorrect!

But the truth is, this poll proved no such thing. The tweet was just worded completely wrong, either by design or incompetence. The actual question in the poll that the tweet referenced said this: “Who do you think has the best chance of beating Hillary Clinton if she’s the Democratic nominee in November?”