Liberal Media My Ass: Hillary Clinton’s Alleged Polling Woes

The latest round of polling has hit the press with curiously coordinated reactions. Nearly every mainstream news outlet chose to spin the results as negative for Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton

To be sure, Clinton’s favorability has suffered in the past few weeks due to relentless bashing by more than a dozen Republican presidential hopefuls and an unending stream of baseless but damaging stories about her email. However, the uniformity of the media presentation is hardly representative of the reality. Here is how the press is covering the news:

  • Washington Times: Hillary Clinton’s unfavorable rating approaches record territory
  • ABC News: Clinton Goes Under Water
  • Breitbart News: Gallup: Hillary Clinton’s Favorability at All-Time Low
  • Wall Street Journal: Hillary Clinton Hits Lows on Favorability, Trustworthiness
  • Reuters: Clinton’s favorability ratings lowest since 2001
  • The Hill: Poll: Clinton’s favorability tumbles
  • NBC News: Hillary Clinton’s Popularity Drops Sharply in NBC/WSJ Poll
  • Fox News: Fox News Poll: Clinton popularity drops

While there is nothing wrong with reporting the facts in polling, it is misleading if the reporters don’t put the numbers into context. And an examination of the poll results paints a very different picture of the campaign. Just using the most recent Fox News poll as an example, Clinton’s “low” favorability rating is still higher than every Republican in the poll except for one (Ben Carson). It is not a trivial side issue to note that Clinton scores better than the GOP front-runner, Donald Trump, and trounces him in a head-to-head match-up. But that is not considered newsworthy by the so-called “liberal” media.

What’s more, the press didn’t think it was important to report that every Republican’s unfavorables are at their all-time highs. Why is it news that Clinton’s favorabilty is suffering, but it isn’t news that all of her potential rivals are suffering as badly or worse? This is something the media has been doing for years with President Obama. They leap at every opportunity to report any drop in his popularity (which currently stands at about 47%) and how it will hamper the success of his agenda with Congress. What they leave out is that Congress has a favorability in the mid-teens, which should give the President a significant advantage.

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Every single one of the headlines above could just as easily have read “Clinton And All Republicans Favorability At Or Near All-Time Lows,” but that would have meant engaging in honest journalism rather than deliberately misleading horse-race tabloidism. So the next time you see a spate of negative headlines hammering Clinton, remember that there is almost certainly more to the story than the media is telling you. And what they are usually leaving out is that, no matter how much people dislike Clinton, that hate Republicans even more.

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7 thoughts on “Liberal Media My Ass: Hillary Clinton’s Alleged Polling Woes

  1. Hillary stills polls higher than ANY of the Republican trolls! The constant attack on her email—which, to date, has produced no consequences of detriment to our government—and the Benghazi committee still meeting, is pathetic. She will win.

  2. And yet this article makes zero mention of Bernie Sanders and how well he is polling. Isn’t that hypocritical? Or at least further proving your point with your own actions.

    • Sanders isn’t mentioned in this article because it’s not about him. This is a very specific observation about how the media is badly mischaracterizing news about Clinton.

      I have written before about Sanders, and specifically about how the media has ignored his surging candidacy. So don’t go reading too much into his not being mentioned in this one article out of the hundreds I’ve written about the campaign.

  3. Where is this ‘liberal media’ we keep hearing about? It doesn’t f%&$ing exist! Certainly not in the so-called mainstream media. The fourth estate continues to fail us and it hurts this country. An informed public is essential to a democracy and we aren’t getting that from the media, for the most part, in this country.

  4. Why whine about the headlines? Put ALL the poll results up, side-by-side, and let US decide what the meaning is. Hillary IS tanking, and it looks as if you’re crying like a spoiled child over that fact. WE NEED TO OPEN OUR EYES AND SUPPORT A CANDIDATE THAT CAN & WILL WIN, AND WILL RETURN AMERICA TO A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE…..and that candidate is *** BERNIE SANDERS ***!

    • Yes, we know this. Looks to me like this is all being manipulated. Hillary as VP.

  5. We manufacture perceptions of reality…..then we report on it, much like Brer Fox News

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