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Most Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win
Pew Research Center ^ | 10-22-2008 | Pew Research Center

Posted on 10/22/2008 6:42:56 PM PDT by Kleebo151

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.

In recent presidential campaigns, voters repeatedly have said they thought journalists favored the Democratic candidate over the Republican. 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at people-press.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: leftwingconspiracy; mediabias
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Kudos to Pew for putting aside its liberal leanings and reporting the truth. Send this to any Democrats you know who repeats the "corporate media tilts right" meme.
1 posted on 10/22/2008 6:42:57 PM PDT by Kleebo151
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To: Kleebo151

Wow. I thought it was just me. LOL


2 posted on 10/22/2008 6:44:11 PM PDT by Unkosified (What do Osama and Obama have in common? They both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: Kleebo151

Theyll still have a job tomorrow and that sucks.


3 posted on 10/22/2008 6:44:15 PM PDT by GoCards
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To: Kleebo151
Where is that “Penetrating Insights Into The Obvious” guy?
4 posted on 10/22/2008 6:44:39 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: Kleebo151

Someone call Capt. Obvious!


5 posted on 10/22/2008 6:44:40 PM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging! ~ I am Joe!)
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To: Kleebo151

Such a large percentage? Like, Duhhhh.


6 posted on 10/22/2008 6:44:43 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (If we can reverse the ticket, we'd have a winner! PALIN/MCCAIN)
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To: Kleebo151

Gee, I would never have guessed.


7 posted on 10/22/2008 6:44:59 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Obamao's pay grade doesn't even come close to Sarah's pay grade, let alone McCain's)
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To: Kleebo151

Who is the idiot 9% that thinks the rodent media doesn’t want the False Messiah coronated ?


8 posted on 10/22/2008 6:46:05 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Unkosified
"Wow. I thought it was just me. LOL"


9 posted on 10/22/2008 6:46:24 PM PDT by avacado (Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate)
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To: Kleebo151

Did you read it? It’s just a disguised hit piece on McCain/Palin and their growing negatives.


10 posted on 10/22/2008 6:46:38 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Kleebo151
Geez; only 70% say they are Liberal-biased ?

Must have over-sampled Dem's, as usual.

11 posted on 10/22/2008 6:47:02 PM PDT by traditional1 ("The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery")
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To: Kleebo151
Another 8% say journalists don't favor either candidate, and 13% say they don't know which candidate most reporters support.

And thus we can conclude that 13% of Americans don't watch or read the news. A further 8% are either outrageous liars or have some sort of learning disability.
12 posted on 10/22/2008 6:47:20 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Kleebo151

And that is why a mac victory is going to be especially sweet. Also if that large of a majority recongnizes the media bias for bambi, then their commie propaganda has much less effect.

Tar and feather the whole lot of them.


13 posted on 10/22/2008 6:47:40 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; Impy; impeachedrapist; MplsSteve; Norman Bates; neverdem

If McCain actually wins, a public backlash against the MSM’s overwhelming bias may be one of the reasons.


14 posted on 10/22/2008 6:48:02 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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Another 8% say journalists don't favor either candidate

Those 8% are the journalists.

15 posted on 10/22/2008 6:48:41 PM PDT by MNnice (Da ma Dakota)
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To: Kleebo151

What’s sad is this same poll shows the media bias is working!


16 posted on 10/22/2008 6:51:32 PM PDT by Chet 99 (Vote McCain/Palin, or this will be our future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTb5EFZmgbs)
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To: Kleebo151
I must disagree.

I have found the press to be, for the most part, fair, balanced, impartial and displaying the highest degree of professionalism.

Their inquiries have been penetrating, insightful and challenging while cloaked in a veil of unbiased objectivity.

The news organization of MSNBC has been the leader in this regard.

Now, where did I put that crack pipe at........

17 posted on 10/22/2008 6:51:48 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Kleebo151

Well, the Media is supported by corporate wealth, which is supported by the democrats, which is supported by taxpayers, who now have heavy taxation with no representation. Is it time to throw the tea in the harbor again? Shall we make a stand on the Lexington Green? Should we start stockpiling arms and cannons? Where is this leading to?


18 posted on 10/22/2008 6:51:49 PM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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To: Kleebo151

And the numbers are not even close, in 04 it 56-22, this year it is just obvious.


19 posted on 10/22/2008 6:52:08 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Kleebo151

This will be one of the great sources of media whining and hand-wringing when Obama loses.

They will ask themselves on those ridiculous panel shows “why do people view us as biased?”


20 posted on 10/22/2008 6:52:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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