POLL: Only 26 Percent of Americans Believe Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegation Is Credible

Townhall ^ | Sept 21, 2018 | Chris Reeves

[Hadean]

In a newly released YouGov poll about Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, only 26 percent of respondents agreed that “the allegation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh” made by California professor Christine Blasely Ford is “generally credible.”

Conversely, 28 percent of respondents reported thinking that the allegation is “not credible” while the plurality of those polled either were “not sure” about the credibility of the allegation (14 percent) or hadn’t heard enough information to come to a conclusion (32 percent). YouGov pollsters conducted the survey with one thousand respondents on Monday and Tuesday, so the results represent Americans’ reactions to the initial coverage of Ford’s sexual assault allegation this week.

These numbers may come as a surprise to those who have watched the overwhelmingly supportive coverage that Ford’s allegation has received in most mainstream news sources, including Sunday’s Washington Post piece that first laid out Ford’s more detailed claims about Kavanaugh. In subsequent coverage of the allegation early this week on outlets like CNN and MSNBC, journalists and pundits have typically assumed that Ford’s allegation is either definitely true or very plausible despite having little to no corroborating evidence for the story beyond the professor’s own words.

[sergeantdave]

Didn’t the fascist propaganda press just a run a poll that stated 76% of Americans oppose Kavanaugh?

So many lies, so many polls...