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70% Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win
USS Neverdock —
70% !! This has been a problem for a long time but this year it is far worse. "But this year's margin is particularly wide. At this stage of the 2004 campaign, 50% of voters said most journalists wanted to see John Kerry win the election, while 22% said most journalists favored George Bush. In October 2000, 47% of voters said journalists wanted to see Al Gore win and 23% said most journalists wanted Bush to win. In 1996, 59% said journalists were pulling for Bill Clinton."
Study: More Voters Know Joe the Plumber than Obama's ACORN Ties
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Although it is typical the public feels journalists are pulling for the Democrat presidential candidate, the numbers this election cycle are nothing but astounding (emphasis added): ...
By Nearly 8-to-1, Voters Say Journalists Want Obama to Win
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... “Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election,” a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey released Wednesday discovered. Specifically: By an overwhelming “margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another 8% say journalists don't favor either candidate, and 13% say they don't know which candidate most reporters support.” ...
Random: It IS So, Joe!
Swampland —
... • Issues! "Almost two-thirds (64%) of the public heard a lot about "Joe the plumber" and another one-in-four heard a little about him." [Pew] ...
Stones Cry Out — ... At least signs point to voters realizing by an overwhelming margin that journalists want Senator Obama to win. (Hat tip: Newsbusters) Maybe voters are a whole lot smarter than the media thinks. ...
Tracking Poll Update
Daily Kos —
... 49 percent to 42 percent in this state McCain cannot afford to lose. The biggest factor? Less partisan independent voters moving to Obama by a margin of more than 2 to 1. "Right now this election is about independents — independents and the economy,’’ said pollster Tom Eldon. "Obama is clearly establishing himself as the candidate of the independents." Florida remains very competitive for both sides. But remember those independents? Pew says people think the media favors Obama, that Obama won the debates (independent ...
Media Sells Out Remaining Credibility to Boost Obama
Brain-Terminal.com —
People aren’t stupid:
Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election. By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another 8% say journalists don’t favor either candidate, and 13% say they don’t know which candidate most reporters support.
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In recent presidential campaigns, voters repeatedly have said they thought journalists favored the Democratic candidate over the Republican. But this ...
Worth A Look
Sound Politics —
... . (Journalists who wonder why they are the target of these cartoons should take a look at this survey . Although I am glad to point you toward this set of cartoons, I would still like to publish an original cartoon or two on the same subject.) Posted by ...
Hate Fest, Love Fest, Blank Fest
Sound Politics —
... of them considered the possibility that the journalists who run the PI might be partly responsible for its problems. None mentioned the hostility toward "mainstream" journalists from nearly all on the right and most in the center. (For the record, I think that most of the financial problems of our newspapers come from internet competition. But some of their problems must have come from alienating so many potential customers. And to support that proposition, there is much data. For example: Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the ...
Media Redemption in Unmasking Global Warming Scam
Pajamas Media —
Could the MSM reclaim some of its tarnished reputation by investigating the climate change charade? [image] Every time the mainstream media shoots itself in the foot (RatherGate, ACORN’s pimp scandal, the biased coverage of the 2008 presidential elections) conservatives proclaim the industry’s death knell. And every time they do, such talk is premature. But there is one story that could strike a mortal blow to the biased MSM beast: the global warming meme. Virtually every media outlet, from major newspapers to niche magazines like Men’s Health , have been sounding the alarm ...
