Daily Beast reporters fanned out to several areas of the city, including Weiner’s district, the poll doesn’t necessarily capture a representative cross-section of a city of more than 8 million. Still, the margins appear to present a rather clear rebuke to Weiner doomsayers.

They also fall for an easy copy editing mistake, misspelling the other name of a frankfurter, writing about "Weiner’s weiner." Tom McGeveran warned about that!