{"id":10321,"date":"2013-08-07T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10321"},"modified":"2013-08-07T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:50:38","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-clinton-polling-ahead-of-every-republican-is-underwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10321","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Clinton Polling Ahead Of Every Republican Is “Underwhelming”"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it is still more than three years before the next presidential election, Fox News is desperately spinning polling results in order to diminish the broad popularity of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

In an article on Fox Nation (the notoriously dishonest<\/a> Fox News community site), a poll conducted (pdf)<\/a> by Monmouth University is given a thorough, four paragraph, analysis by conservative fabulist Michael Barone. The conclusion he draws from his careful examination of the poll data is that Clinton’s showing is “underwhelming.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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It takes a seriously determined feat of self-delusion to make that assessment. Clinton is shown to be beating every prominent Republican matched against her in the poll. She is ahead of Chris Christie 43-39; Marco Rubio 47-36; Jeb Bush 47-37; and Ted Cruz 48-32. She has the highest favorable rating (52%) of anyone in the field, including a net positive in the survey’s “red”<\/em> states. The GOP’s Tea Party all-stars fare considerably worse: Rand Paul, 34%, Rubio, 33%; Cruz, 22%. And, not that this will be any factor in 2016, but Sarah Palin’s unfavorability soars over everyone else at a whopping 61%.<\/p>\n

This tendency for Republicans to mis-read polling<\/a> seems to be a permanent part of their character. During the 2012 campaign they famously embraced what they called “unskewed”<\/em> polls, but were actually perversions of polling data that proved to be astronomically wrong. Facilitated by Fox News, these defective analyses produced a reality shock when President Obama was handily reelected. There was a near mental collapse on the right who didn’t think that such a thing was possible, despite all the legitimate polling that predicted it. Even Karl Rove persisted in an embarrassing on-air denial as the race was called for Obama.<\/p>\n

After the election, the GOP and Fox News resolved to reexamine their perspectives on strategy, analysis, and reporting. However, it now appears that they have sunk back into their old habits of self-deception and disinformation. It’s fair to assume that this psychosis will produce the same results in 2014 and 2016 as they did in 2012. If you can’t face the reality of a situation, you can’t respond to what is actually taking place. And Fox seems determined to maintain their aversion to reality which, as Stephen Colbert has revealed, has “a well known liberal bias.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it is still more than three years before the next presidential election, Fox News is desperately spinning polling results in order to diminish the broad popularity of Hillary Clinton. In an article on Fox Nation (the notoriously dishonest Fox News community site), a poll conducted (pdf) by Monmouth University is given a thorough, four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[527,31],"class_list":["post-10321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-fox-nation","tag-hillary-clinton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2Gt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19975,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19975","url_meta":{"origin":10321,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Romney Would CRUSH Obama If Fantasy Ruled The World","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/27\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A new CNN poll was released that asked a frivolous little question that has no real bearing on anything. 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