**BREAKING: ETHICS PANEL SLAMS COOPER-WHATLEY POLL as ‘MORAL CANARY in the COAL MINE’**
BREAKING: ETHICS PANEL SLAMS COOPER-WHATLEY POLL AS ‘MORAL CANARY IN THE COAL MINE’
A bipartisan ethics watchdog has declared the recently leaked internal polling data between NC Governor Roy Cooper and RNC Chairman Michael Whatley “a stain on democratic integrity,” warning that such backroom number-sharing represents the final unraveling of public trust.
In what critics are calling a “new low for the political class,” a confidential poll purporting to measure hypothetical matchups between Cooper and Whatley was obtained by The Moral Compass Report. Among the most damning questions, voters were asked to rank which candidate is “more skilled at hiding donor influence.” One focus group respondent reportedly answered, “They’re both in the same swamp.”