Gateway Pundit, please define “popular”

And the blogger wonders why nobody outside the right-wing world takes him seriously? Here's his recent post regarding a dubious NBC/WSJ poll.

Headline [emphasis added]:

Tea Party Movement Now More Popular Than Dem or Republican Parties

And the intro:

The Obama-Pelosi-Reid socialist democrats now rank lower than the Republican Party and the Tea Party Movement.

Got it? According to Gateway Pundit, Democrats rank lower than the GOP and the Tea Party; it's less “popular.” Except that, according to the poll Gateway Pundit linked to, Democrats do not rank lower than the GOP.

From MSNBC:

The Republican Party maintains its net-negative favorable/unfavorable rating in the poll, with 28 percent viewing it positively and 43 percent seeing it in a negative light.

For the first time in more than two years, the Democratic Party also now holds a net-negative fav/unfav, at 35-45 percent.

By comparison, the NBC/WSJ poll shows the Tea Party movement with a net-positive 41-23 percent score.

Isn't it clear that according to the NBC/WSJ poll, the Republican Party is less popular than the Democratic Party in the poll, because the GOP favorable rating is 28 percent, and the Democratic Party's favorable rating is 35?

But in the world of Gateway Pundit, the GOP's 28 percent means it's more popular than the Dems' 35 percent.

Noted.