Letter: Commentary’s use of poll numbers was misleading

Mark Twain once said there were three kinds of lies: “lies, damn lies and statistics.” The recent Bloomburg commentary by Nia-Malika Henderson provides an excellent example of the latter (“Trump finally talked affordability, but was it convincing,” The Herald, Feb. 26. To quote from the opinion article, “About 7 in 10 say the economy is only ‘fair’ or ‘poor’ as opposed to ‘excellent’ or ‘good,’ according to the Pew Research Center.”