NYT Pushes 'Income Inequaity' Obsession in Polls, on Front Page

Clay Waters
June 4th, 2015 10:34 PM
Another day, another batch of poll results from the New York Times pushing a liberal issue. Yesterday it was campaign finance. Thursday's front page brought the paper's latest installment of the paper's ongoing obsession with "income inequality," "Inequality Troubles Americans Across Party Lines, a Poll Finds," with special pressure on what it would mean for the Republicans in 2016.
 

NYTimes Buries Own Poll Findings Showing Support for Armed Guards in S

Clay Waters
January 18th, 2013 4:12 PM
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll, focused on gun control, showed gains for stricter gun laws and (coincidentally?) made the front page of the national edition, in a report by Michael Cooper and Dalia Sussman, under a wishful headline: "Massacre Sways Public In Way Others Did Not." But they buried findings in the same poll that show 74 percent of Americans support conservative ideas of…
 

NYTimes Fronts Pro-Obama Medicare Poll Findings; Other Outlets Focus o

Clay Waters
August 23rd, 2012 4:07 PM
Thursday's New York Times front page included a report by Michael Cooper (pictured) and Dalia Sussman on a new CBS News/Quinnipiac University/New York Times poll of likely voters in the crucial states of Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin after Romney's choice as running mate Medicare reformer Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin: "In Poll, Obama Is Given Trust Over Medicare." Showing how the same findings…
 

NYTimes Published Poll Showing Bad News for Obama on Gay Marriage Stan

Clay Waters
May 15th, 2012 1:40 PM
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll suggested President Obama's sudden stand on gay marriage was hurting him, and also showed him slightly behind in the expected fall match-up with Mitt Romney, in a story buried on page A17: "New Poll Finds Voters Dubious of Obama’s Announcement on Same-Sex Marriage." Peter Baker and Dalia Sussman reported: Most Americans suspect that President Obama was…
 

ABC, CBS, WaPo, NYT Use Loaded Poll Questions to Tout Dem Unemployment

Lachlan Markay
July 19th, 2010 5:15 PM
The New York Times today touted two polls that supposedly demonstrate support for the Democratic position on unemployment benefits. But a further examination of the poll questions reveals that their findings were inaccurate; the questions misrepresented the issues at play, and the Republican position on the matter."Two national polls published last week suggest that most Americans are on […
 

Another Huge Pro-Democrat Disparity in an NYT/CBS Poll

Clay Waters
June 18th, 2009 5:39 PM
New York Times Reporters Jeff Zeleny and Dalia Sussman broke down the latest NYT/CBS News poll Thursday and found Obama's favorable ratings holding steady, but support for his actual policies in the red: "Obama Poll Sees Doubt On Budget And Health Care -- Overall Support High." Usually the Times team of Adam Nagourney and Megan Thee handle the poll stories, and usually Obama comes off looking…