In its continuing efforts to get in a few final whacks at Mitt Romney before he shakes the dust off of this one-Prius town and assumes the national stage, the Boston Globe has been assiduously reporting Romney’s decline in popularity among Bay State voters. Almost absurdly, the Globe reported that in a match-up of potential challengers for the Republican presidential nomination in Massachusetts, Romney got 23% of the vote while Rudy Giuliani pulled 27% and John McCain 28%. The sample size for this poll? 132 voters! Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. The Globe deemed a poll of 132 voters to be a story worth reporting. On its front page.

Kudos go to the Globe’s political blogger David Dahl who revealed the poll’s outrageously Lilliputian sample size. And a big thumbs down goes to the Globe’s Frank Phillips who reported the poll’s results on the Globe’s front page without mentioning the sample size.

Agenda journalism? I merely blog – you decide.

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