Is the WaPo Stuffing Its Own Ballot Box for the 'Public Option
October 21st, 2009 7:51 AM
The Washington Post touted a new poll on Tuesday that popular support is increasing for a government-run "public option" health care system – just as liberal Democrats try to push that into the Senate Finance Committee bill. The headline was "Public option gains support: Clear majority now backs plan." So it’s not surprising, as Ed Morrissey found at Hot Air, that the Post is stuffing its poll…
CNN's Cafferty Reads Mostly From Those Who Support Public Option
October 20th, 2009 6:46 PM
On Tuesday’s Situation Room, CNN’s Jack Cafferty highlighted a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll which found that Americans apparently support the public option and mandatory insurance, and most of the viewer responses that he read supported these left-wing positions. Cafferty didn’t explicitly voice his agreement with the poll results, but presented his own liberal proposal for health care.…
MSNBC’s David Shuster Blames Falling GOP ID on ‘Town Hall Screamer
October 20th, 2009 6:21 PM
At the top of the 4:00PM ET hour of MSNBC Live, co-anchor David Shuster claimed the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll “numbers appear to back up the concerns of mainstream Republicans worried about the impact of birthers, tenthers, and town hall screamers....moderates have been frightened away and party identification has dropped to the lowest level in nearly three decades, since Nixon and…
Bloomberg Spins Negative ObamaCare Poll Into Bad News for GOP
October 8th, 2009 3:43 PM
Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft, who has been on quite a roll as of late, had the Media Bias Catch of the Day, Polling Division, this morning. Rush mentioned Hoft's post on his show this afternoon. Jim compared the results of a Quinnipiac poll on ObamaCare to how Bloomberg reported the results. He first noted what Quinnipiac found: Jim then asked, "So, how does the state-run media report this news…
CBS’s Rodriguez Wishes She Could Be Michelle Obama
September 28th, 2009 4:25 PM
Monday’s CBS Early Show touted a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll about American cultural attitudes, with CBSNews.com’s Cali Carlin asking co-host Maggie Rodriguez one of the survey questions: "Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie or Beyonce...Who would you want to swap lives with for a week?" Rodriguez immediately responded: "Hands down, Michelle Obama." Carlin happily declared that…
NY Times's Latest Heavily Pro-Democratic Poll Still Finds Resistance t
September 25th, 2009 2:35 PM
The latest New York Times-CBS poll was reported by Adam Nagourney and Dalia Sussman for Friday's front page -- "Public Wary of Obama on War and Health Care, Poll Finds." The news wasn't great for Barack Obama's agenda, though Nagourney, the paper's chief political reporter, performed some helpful spinning for the president. Revealingly, the poll still gives the president a 56% approval rating,…
Public Trust in Media Accuracy & Fairness Plunges, Liberal v Conservat
September 14th, 2009 2:18 AM
“The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys,” a new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, embargoed for release at 11 PM EDT Sunday night, discovered. The survey, of 1,506 adults conducted in late July, found “nearly three-quarters (74%) say news organizations tend to favor one side…
CNN's Polling Before and After Obama Speech Skewed Democratic
September 10th, 2009 12:58 PM
Update (NB Staff): MRC/NB's Brent Bozell reacts to CNN poll (posted below page break).CNN/Opinion Research Corporation’s poll on President Obama’s health care speech to Congress on Wednesday significantly oversampled Democrats. The pollsters interviewed 427 Americans before and after their speech- only 18% were Republicans, while 45% were Democrats. Due to this skewing, CNN didn’t really play up…
LiveScience.com Writes Up A Report That Should Be Headlined: 'Majority
August 25th, 2009 2:41 PM
Using a "clever" headline, LiveScience.com, in a report carried at Yahoo News, tries to give those who will only see the headline the impression that Americans are a bunch of dummies who don't understand what's good for them: Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform 'Myths' Yes, the word "myths" is in quotes, but the reader is left to assume that a credible outfit must be asserting what…
ABC Manages to Find 'Glass Half Full' for Obama on Health as His Polls
August 21st, 2009 8:17 PM
With “Losing Support” as the on-screen heading, ABC's World News on Friday night certainly made clear how President Obama is losing favor with the American people as his approval level and attitudes toward his health care efforts continue steadily downward so now more are opposed (50 percent) than in favor (45 percent) and he's suffered a 29-point drop in agreement with enacting a “public option…
NBC Push Polling For ObamaCare
August 19th, 2009 10:39 AM
Push Poll: technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll.By that definition, it sure seems that NBC is push polling on behalf of ObamaCare. On this morning's Today, NBC News Political Director and Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd reported on a new NBC poll that reflected the fact that,…
