Nobody knows who Nancy Pelosi is... except voters

Yglesias pointing to new poll today,

The political press has a structural tendency to overstate the political importance of basically everything that happens. And one of the ways in which they do this is with a tendency to vastly overstate the extent to which people are paying any attention to what’s happening in Washington. 49 percent knowing who Pelosi is isn’t a terribly small share of the public, but that 49 percent is disproportionately going to be composed of strong partisans who don’t swing elections.

I see what he's getting at and I generally agree with him re: the political press. However, the poll in question shows Pelosi with a 49 percent rating was with self-described registered voters. If a poll was released during election season that sampled self-described registered voters it's findings would rightfully be scoffed at. What we really want to know is the number of likely voters who know who Nancy Pelosi is and what they think of her.