Polling

The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy? A new poll found only 14 percent of the public expressed a great deal of confidence in the media on their election-related information, while 52 percent have little or no confidence in their journalism.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough criticizes the media for stereotyping Trump supporters as "people are stumbling drunk out of their trailer park and shooting raccoons or something like that. " But Scarborough himself recently mocked Republican Jim Comer in similar fashion, describing him as saying, "we ain't really got nuthin' but a squirrel fryer and a hound dog," and "running for the hills.…

CBS News has added a latest installment to their ongoing series of panicked items conveying the current state of the race: a recap of their own poll showing former President Trump garnering greater trust on the economy in three key battleground states: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. The poll was covered as part of White House correspondent Weijia Jiang’s daily wrapup.

Actor and alleged comedian John Leguizamo joined Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central to have a calm and rational, adult-like reaction to polling that shows Donald Trump leading among Latinos. Just kidding, he decided to torture a piñata while going off a profanity-ridden Spanish tirade.

In the mid-‘90s, President Bill Clinton hired famed pollster Dick Morris to triangulate Clinton’s path to victory in 1996. Morris told Clinton that polling is not designed to tell someone what to do. Rather, polling is designed to tell one how to sell what they want to do. President Joe Biden has forgotten that lesson and now, instead of leading, he is being led around by his polling. Eighteen…

Democrat voters are the least worried that the government will use the guise of fighting misinformation and hate speech to censor political dissent on the Internet and social media, a new national survey reveals.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough goes full Baghdad Bob for Biden. He suggests people should ignore "stupid March polls" that show Biden losing, and analogizes the race to the 1980 race between Carter and Reagan, before Carter's support collapsed at the very end.

CNN’s Dana Bash took time on Friday’s edition of Inside Politics to discuss some of the network’s latest polling data that showed Donald Trump with a 20-point lead over Joe Biden on who would do a better job on the issue of Israel and Gaza. Bash simply couldn’t believe as she scoffed that “the world is upside down.”

PBS again went to bat for the “LGBTQ-Plus” warriors on the PBS News Weekend Sunday, lamenting a slight dip in America’s gushing over the alphabet folks in “U.S. support for LGBTQ+ rights is declining after decades of support. Here’s why.” In the show introduction, anchor John Yang fretted over “declining support for LGBTQ-plus rights, reversing years of increasing support,”…

On MSNBC, a paranoid Michael Beschloss fears that in order to help Trump, Putin, China, and Turkey will spark an international crisis shortly before the 2024 election, to undermine confidence in Biden.  Beschloss also claims that because schools aren't teaching "civics," people don't understand the difference between democracy and dictatorship, and are therefore gulled into supporting Trump.…

Data shows that winds of political change are blowing among Black voters. In volatile times like now, predictions can be made with only the greatest caution. However, it seems clear that something is going on and Black voters are breaking with past voting patterns.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, who was recently revealed to be a frequent phone buddy with and adviser to Joe Biden, in discussing a new NBC News poll fails to mention its most important finding: that among registered voters, Trump is beating Biden by 5 points, his largest lead yet. 

A recent poll showed President Joe Biden leading former President Donald Trump 50-44 and CBS’s Stephen Colbert could hardly contain his excitement. On Thursday’s The Late Show, Colbert claimed the reason for the numbers was because women know that Biden is the only thing preventing the Supreme Court from “putting a go-pro in their uterus.” Colbert would also later claim the country…

On The NPR Politics Podcast on Friday, a trio of NPR reporters expressed alarm that Joe Biden’s “better angel speech” at Valley Forge wasn’t winning the day, that opinion polls show backsliding on January 6 and Republican “disinformation” is taking over. Congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales brought up a Washington Post poll that found the percentage of Americans who say Trump…