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We definitely needed a poll to tell us this:

A new national poll of Republicans suggests that there’s no front runner at this extremely early moment in the next race for the White House.

Three possible candidates are all bunched at the top of a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday.

The survey suggests that 22 percent of Republicans would most likely support former Arkansas governor and former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee for their party’s presidential nomination in 2012. Twenty-one percent say they would most likely back Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, with an equal number supporting former Massachusetts governor and former White House hopeful Mitt Romney.

Taking into account the poll’s 4.5 percent sampling error, Huckabee, Palin and Romney seem to be locked in a hypothetical dead heat.

And we definitely need to invoke sampling error in order to declare that to be a dead heat, sorry, a hypothetical dead heat.

This hypothetical post on CNN’s Political Ticker blog was written by CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser. He does, of course, belong to the self-certified best political team on television.

There should be limits to mainstream media asininity, but apparently there are not.