New Rasmussen Survey: Voters See Media As Liberal, Biased & Too Powerf
January 15th, 2010 3:27 PM
A new survey from Scott Rasmussen finds that more than half of all voters (51%) believe "the average reporter is more liberal than they are," and two-thirds (67%) think the media have "too much power and influence over government decisions."Rasmussen's poll was released Thursday. Perhaps proving the point, on Friday, MSNBC anchor Savannah Guthrie reacted to polls showing the Democrats losing…
NY Times Disputes Validity of Pollster Showing Close Mass. Senate Race
January 8th, 2010 2:42 PM
On Friday, New York Times reporter Abby Goodnough described the surprise struggles of Mass. Democrat Martha Coakley, once considered a shoo-in to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy, but now facing a strong challenge from Republican Scott Brown: "In Massachusetts, Surprise Anxiety for Favored Democrats." Goodnough's hook was a Rasmussen Reports poll showing Brown within nine points of…
CNN's Erica Hill Cites Network's Senate Health Care Poll, Totals 110 P
December 22nd, 2009 12:52 AM
Anchoring CNN Tonight, correspondent Erica Hill reported the findings of a new poll:While Democrats and the president may be cheering the bill's passage, a majority of Americans still oppose the Senate plan. According to a CNN Opinion Research Corporation poll, 56 percent say they are against the measure. Now that's a slight shift actually in favor of the plan from a weeks ago. When as you can…
Tea Party Movement Tops Established Parties in NBC/WSJ Poll Despite Bi
December 17th, 2009 1:50 PM
Yesterday at NewsBusters, Geoffrey Dickens documented the furor of MSNBC's Chris Mathews over the results of an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (PDF). Specifically, Mathews was irked that the Tea Party Movement (TPM) was viewed quite a bit more favorably than the two major political parties by those polled (VP=Very Positive; SP=Somewhat Positive; N=Neutral; SN=Somewhat Negative; VN=Very Negative;…
Robert Gibbs Touts Gallup Numbers When They Support Obama
December 9th, 2009 12:23 AM
White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, recently ridiculed a Gallup poll which showed the President's approval ratings at a record low for this stage of his presidency, for seemingly no other reason than they showed the President in a negative light. Gibbs referred to the Gallup polling organization as a wildly fluctuating EKG, labeling their results as the equivalent of ‘a 6-year-old with a…
60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll Asks If Obama Should Be Added to Mt. Rushm
November 30th, 2009 3:34 PM
The first question in a poll conducted by CBS’s 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair magazine asked Americans to nominate a fifth face for Mt. Rushmore and included Barack Obama among the contenders. While President Kennedy took the lead with 29%, Obama came in fourth with 16%, just behind Franklin Roosevelt at 18% and Ronald Reagan at 20%.On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-hosts Harry Smith and Maggie…
CNN's Chetry Misstates CNN Poll Findings on Public Option
November 23rd, 2009 6:03 PM
On today's American Morning, anchor Kiran Chetry engaged Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele in a discussion of the Democrats' health care bill. Citing a recent CNN poll, she claimed that a majority wants "some kind of public option":CHETRY: I know one of the things that Republicans are very much against is the public option. And this is a huge hurdle that has to pass. This…
Health Care Poll-Cooking: AP Headlines 'Tax the Rich' Finding, Ignores
November 17th, 2009 1:19 PM
That the Associated Press's basement-level poll-cooking and poll-reporting standards are quite low, and quite agenda-driven, might as well be an article of faith by this time. But the wire service-commissioned poll on health care, and Erica Warner's report on it (saved here for future reference, fair use, and discussion purposes; HT JammieWearingFool via Instapundit; the full poll report in PDF…
As They Pound Palin with Polls, Where Are the Gallup and Network Polls
November 17th, 2009 12:22 PM
As several networks run around with new ratify-our-liberal-bias polls insisting that Sarah Palin is completely unqualified to be president -- exquisitely timed to ruin her book tour and channel all their very obvious and partisan Palin-loathing -- where are the polls that are about 2009, as opposed to 2012? A scan of Gallup.com and Pollingreport.com suggests that neither Gallup nor any of the…
Gallup: Less Than Half Think Healthcare Government's Responsibility
November 13th, 2009 11:29 AM
In a week of surprising polls, Gallup has just released another that will raise some eyebrows given legislation just passed in the House last Saturday:[T]his year marks the first time in the history of this trend that less than half of Americans say ensuring healthcare coverage for all is the federal government's responsibility...The current poll results indicate that, with the renewed healthcare…
How Will Media Report GOP Beating Democrats in New Gallup Poll
November 11th, 2009 1:59 PM
A rather stunning Gallup poll was released Wednesday showing Republicans moving ahead of Democrats in which Party registered voters support in next year's Congressional elections.As Gallup reported in its summary, this is a rare occurrence in the almost sixty years since the polling organization has been tracking generic voter preferences for the House of Representatives.Given media's downplaying…
