Hillary Lead Over Trump Surges After Reuters “Tweaks” Poll, by Tyler Durden.

Over the past week, there was a troubling development for the establishment: Trump was soaring in the polls. In fact, in the widely watched, Reuters/IPSOS poll, for the first time Trump had taken an inexcusable 1 point lead following the Republican National convention.

So, as we reported last night, something had to be done. And something was done: Reuters “tweaked” its polling methodology. …

[A]ccording to Reuters “the inclusion of the word “Neither” is capturing Soft Trump supporters who, if given such an option, prefer not to make a choice. Here it is important to note that the soft supporter phenomenon also affects Clinton, but to a much lesser degree.”

As a result, the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll – pre Friday evening – had Trump 40.2%, Clinton 38.5%, but, on a “pro forma” basis, eliminating “Neither” from the “Neither/Other” answer produced a different result. In that case, Clinton was ahead, 40% to 36%.

In other words, the real reason for the “tweak” was to push Hillary back in the lead simply due to a change in the question phrasing methodology.

With the first new poll under the new polling “approach” due to be released last night, we predicted that it would show a dramtic rebound for Hillary, just as Trump was picking up steam, and in doing so changing the entire frontrunner narrative from the ground up.

Hillary won the Democrat nomination over Sanders in large part because of the appointed “super delegates” and because the supposedly-neutral DNC was pushing strongly for her. Now the “umpires” in the larger race are bending the rules for her. A more attractive candidate is hard to imagine.