Last week I blogged, derisively, about the fact that CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley had not reported its own CBS/NY Times poll data, which showed the Democrat Party in terrible shape as we head toward the midterm elections.
Well, they ain\’t the only ones.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll came out today. And it is borderline disastrous for Democrats:
-President Obama, who made a special point of telling us this election is about his policies, stands (maybe sits is a more appropriate word) at 40% approval – the lowest he has ever been in this poll;
-Independents, the “swing voters” who very often determine which way elections go, give Mr. Obama an approval rating of only 33%;
-Democrats, as a party, are at 39% approval. Not only is this a 30 year low for Democrats, but it puts them within 6% of Republicans, whom they usually dominate on the party-approval measure;
-And, among likely voters, Republicans hold a 50% – 43% lead in which party\’s house members voters say they will be supporting – with independents favoring Republicans by a huge 51% – 32%.
Now that\’s pretty big news. So ABC\’s Good Morning America (GMA) show, of course, did a major feature on it, right?
Uh…..wrong.
According to of Jeffrey Meyers\’ piece at newsbusters.org, GMA gave it all of 17 seconds…….while doing a 58 second story about how much Michelle Obama likes turnips (I swear, that\’s what it says happened).
Let\’s see: two stories: one about a disastrous poll for Democrats – ABC\’s own poll – taken less than three weeks before the election, and the other about Michelle Obama\’s recommendation that we eat more turnips: which gets more coverage?
Why, Michelle Obama\’s turnips, of course.
Media bias?
Naaaahhhh
