(CNN) Republicans escaped disaster in West Virginia on Tuesday when Don Blankenship finished third in the Senate primary. The surge narrative instead came when Politico and then The Weekly Standard reported internal poll data over the weekend. We didn't know how the "internal" polling was going to be biased in West Virginia because we didn't know who conducted the internal polls or who sponsored them. There was no way to know if we could trust the West Virginia internal polls that were released. There also seems to be an inside-the-Beltway belief that Democrats are destined to take back the House based off some internal data.

Source: CNN May 09, 2018 10:07 UTC