Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly” has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last […] Read more »
Honesty honestly
Pundits now regularly proclaim that Hillary Clinton has an almost singular and unique problem with voters who don’t think she’s honest or forthright. These pundits are wrong, both as a matter of fact and of voter perception. Nonetheless, the commentariat has elevated this view to the lofty level of a […] Read more »
Real-Time Election Day Projections May Upend News Tradition
For decades, news organizations have refrained from releasing early results in presidential battleground states on Election Day, adhering to a strict, time-honored embargo until a majority of polls there have closed. Now, a group of data scientists, journalists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is seeking to upend that reporting tradition, providing […] Read more »
Relatively Few People Are Partisan News Consumers, but They’re Influential
… New research shows that the great majority of people learn about political news from mainstream, relatively centrist media sources, not ideological websites or cable channels. However, relatively small numbers of partisans, especially Republicans, are heavy consumers of a highly polarized media diet. CONT. Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth), New York Times Read more »
America’s Voice/Latino Decisions 2016 National Latino Voter Survey
Earlier today, America’s Voice and Latino Decisions released the second wave of the 2016 Battleground Poll. … The national poll of 3,729 Latino registered voters was fielded between August 19th and 30th using a blend of web, land, and cell interviews with interviews conducted in English and Spanish based upon […] Read more »
Voters Give Clinton Wide Edge Over Trump on Trust to Handle Health Care Issues
With the 2016 elections just 10 weeks away, voters give Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton a substantial advantage over Republican nominee Donald Trump on a wide array of health care issues, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds. … In spite of Clinton’s edge with voters on these issues, most […] Read more »