The Huffington Post Obama Lead Headline - I Hope Only Sloppy Rather Than Deceptive

Note: I am a Huffington Post OffTheBus blogger (only two posts, most recent Aug. 14), but I call them as I see them

The Huffington Post: Lead (Large Type) Item Currently on Home Page
New Poll: Obama 10 Points Ahead Of Clinton In New Hampshire

Links to: Obama Ten Points Ahead In NH? (notice the question mark)
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/obama-ten-point.html

Which links to Election 2008: New Hampshire Democratic Primary
http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/new_hampshire/election_2008_new_hampshire_democratic_primary
Excerpt:
"Clinton still leads nationally in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll but Rasmussen Markets data suggests the race for the nomination is essentially even....

These numbers reflect results from a prediction market, not a poll."

Also, why would The Huffington Post link to Andrew Sullivan rather than Rasmussen source for a home page lead story?

Also, The Huffington Post headline calls it a poll, while Rasmussen says it is not.
UPDATE 1: Saw this in my email inbox
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby New Hampshire Poll: McCain Leads Romney; Clinton Leads Obama as Edwards Remains at 20%
Excerpt:
"Please click the link below to view the full news release:
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1414"

Update 2 (1-7-08): This seems to fall under the category of it's better to be lucky than good:
Obama Surges Past Clinton in New Poll
Excerpt:
Two days before New Hampshire's Democratic primary, Sen. Barack Obama has opened a double-digit lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton in that state, a new CNN-WMUR poll found Sunday.

Obama, the first-term senator from Illinois who won last week's Iowa caucuses, led the New York senator and former first lady 39 percent to 29 percent in a poll conducted Saturday and Sunday -- a sharp change from a poll out Saturday that showed the Democratic front-runners tied at 33 percent....

The poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire, surveyed 341 likely Democrats and 268 Republicans likely to vote in Tuesday's primary. It had a sampling error of 5 percentage points."
http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/obama-surges-past-clinton-in-new-poll/20080106072109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

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