Arianna Huffington, a personal friend and professional nemesis, recently resurrected an attack on a poll we conducted nearly a decade ago. Like many politicos, Huffington is schizophrenic about polls – when she is not issuing fatwas against participating in them, she is an avid consumer.

I’m not a kiss-and-tell consultant, but I think the story behind this survey, and Huffington’s inaccurate rendition of it, provides a useful glimpse into both polling and her anti-poll polemics.

Arianna summarized her complaint in a post ominously headlined “Clinton Colombia Connection