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…
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…
