Monmouth pollster explains USAToday/Suffolk U poll "witch hunt" question poorly designed.

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Patrick Murray
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Story lede is based on this poll question: "President Trump has called the Special Counsel´s investigation a “witch hunt” and said he´s been subjected to more investigations than previous presidents because of politics. Do you agree?"

Where do I start?

1. The "double-barrel" -- even SurveyMonkey warns its lay users not to do this:

2. The unbalanced response option -- we have oodles of evidence that the number of positive responses goes up with the "agree" option is presented without explicitly presenting "disagree" as a choice as well.

In fact it could be conceivably heard as a triple barreled question.
(1) Is it a witch hunt
(2) Has he been subjected to more investigations than previous presidents because of politics
and also possibly (3) has he been subjected to more investigations full stop