What the fuck is wrong with the New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/us/politics/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-poll.html

Beto O’Rourke’s War Chest Bothers Some Democrats as He Struggles Against Ted Cruz
By Jonathan Martin and Matt Flegenheimer
Oct. 12, 2018


Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, has moved to repair any lingering damage with Republican loyalists over his complicated history with President Trump. Larry W Smith/EPA, via Shutterstock

WASHINGTON — Representative Beto O’Rourke’s blockbuster fund-raising in his race to unseat Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is colliding with a widening deficit in polls, bringing long-simmering tensions into public view between Democrats who believe Mr. O’Rourke should share his bounty with better-positioned candidates and others who say his only obligation is to maximize his own chances.

Mr. O’Rourke announced Friday that he had raised over $38 million in the last three months alone, a staggering sum for a statewide race and the most of any Senate candidate in history. But a new poll completed Thursday night by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College indicated that Mr. Cruz now leads Mr. O’Rourke by eight percentage points, 51 percent to 43 percent, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 points.

This convergence illustrates both the remarkable rise of Mr. O’Rourke, previously a little-known congressman from the border city of El Paso, into a national Democratic leader and the fundamental difficulty of attempting to win as a progressive in Texas.

But Mr. O’Rourke is also emerging as a small-dollar fund-raising force — one whom many supporters hope will run for president, win or lose — at the moment his party is seeing its prospects for retaking the Senate dim in the aftermath of the protracted clash over the Supreme Court nomination of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.