So it's not just a vox populi panel in Wisconsin -- on MSNBC, no less --  that smells the stench of cover-up from Kamala Harris. The Anointing has apparently not ended the electorate's interest in the chaotic month that followed the exposure of Joe Biden's cognitive impairment on national TV in a prime-time debate. And voters who saw through the attempts to cover it up afterward have firm ideas on exactly who to blame for the shocking display.

A new YouGov poll conducted with the Times of London asked all of the usual electoral questions, but then added a section to test what Americans concluded from the debacle. The survey was taken on Monday and Tuesday of this week, after Biden withdrew from the race but while he remained in a weird seclusion while more chaos swirled in Washington. The New York Post picked up on the results last night:

92% of voters blame Kamala Harris for Biden health coverup: poll

What did the vice president know about President Biden’s health issues and when did she know it?

And why didn’t she share the details with the American people? ...

A staggering 92% of respondents believe Harris knew at least a little bit about the president’s progressive deterioration, which became too much for even mainstream media to deny after his debate debacle against former President Donald Trump last month in Atlanta, though Biden’s issues have been discussed openly on the right since he took office in 2021.

That's not quite right, and their headline is also inaccurate. And that's unfortunate, because the actual numbers are damning as it is. A wide majority of registered-voter respondents believe a cover-up took place (54/30). The 92% figure comes as a subset of the 54% that believe a cover-up took place. It's accurate to extrapolate that into a claim that a majority of American voters believe that Kamala Harris took part in that cover-up, but not that 92% of voters do.

But still, that in itself is rather damning. Let's take a closer look at the YouGov data. On the overall question of a cover-up of Biden's "health," the only demos that object to the idea are Democrats (20/57), self-assessed liberals (24/56), and black voters (25/48). Every other demo has pluralities or majorities believing a cover-up took place. That includes 60% of independent voters, 50% of voters under 30, 50% of Hispanics, 48% of women, and majorities in every regional breakout in the data. 

Now, among the 54% that believe a cover-up took place, they identify the following as complicit:

• Kamala Harris - 92%, 68% by "a great deal"
• The news media - 88%, 59%
• The Biden family - 96%, 84%
• Congressional Democrats - 92%, 61%
• White House staff - 95%, 77%

It seems that angry voters have cast a wide net to capture the breadth of the conspiracy to cover up Biden's advancing senility. And they are correct to do so, and largely correct to place most of the blame on the Bidens and the White House staff. But as Karine Jean-Pierre insisted on Wednesday, Harris meets or talks with Biden on a daily basis, which means her complicity is almost equally egregious.

Here's the demo breakdown among those who think (a) a cover-up took place (54% of the total sample), and (b) Harris had a great deal of responsibility for it (68% of the subset of 54%):

• Men: 70%
• Women: 66%
• Independents: 73%
• Midwesterners: 78%
• Seniors: 80%
• 45-64YOs: 79%
• Hispanics: 53%

That's not good news for a party that needs to recover the center that booting Joe Biden arguably risks. The only demos that let Harris off the hook for a great deal of responsibility are the usual suspects -- 22% of Democrats, 38% of voters under 30, 30% of black voters. And even then, adding the next level of "somewhat responsible) pushes those demos into majorities: 58% of Democrats who see a cover-up, 65% of voters under 30, and a 45% plurality among black voters. 

Democrats would have been far better off nominating a governor rather than an insider under the circumstances. If Republicans hammer this cover-up as a key election issue, it could do real damage, not just in the presidential election but all the way down the ballot. 

One other interesting data point from the poll should be noted in that context. Even after Biden endorsed Harris on Sunday afternoon, only 50% of respondents think Harris was the best choice to replace Biden. That rises to 77% among Democrats and black voters, but only 51% of women think that she was the best choice, even after Harris became the fait accompli anointed choice. This does note bode well for any groundswell of enthusiasm for a candidate who has yet to receive a single vote on her own outside of California. 

The direct electoral data doesn't look promising either. Harris only managed to get her favorability up to 42/52, with 27/43 on the "very" ratings, even after being endorsed by an even less popular Joe Biden (39/54, 24/45). Trump gets a 44/50 from the same sample and 33/46 on the outer markers. That's probably why the usually Dem-leaning YouGov shows Trump with a 46/44 lead, even in the "honeymoon" blush of The Anointment.