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Fox News poll: Most Americans more likely to vote against politicians who oppose background checks
As I’ve said here on numerous occasions, the public opinion polls commissioned by Fox News generally are trustworthy, no matter the network’s notorious bias in reporting the news.
The latest Fox poll is a GOOD EXAMPLE:
When an expansion of background checks for guns failed to pass the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, the president urged his supporters to vote background-check opponents out of office.
The new poll, released Tuesday, finds voters may heed the president’s call.
Some 61 percent say they would be less likely to support a candidate who voted against expanding background checks. That’s far greater than …
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Fox News poll: Most Americans think the Boston bombs were not the work of Islamic terrorists
Let me stipulate at the outset here that there’s no reason to think of polls commissioned by Fox News as biased, no matter the network’s reputation for inaccuracy.
That said, HERE are a few results of a quickie poll sponsored by Fox:
By a wide 62-20 percent margin, voters think homegrown terrorists are more likely than Islamic terrorists to have been behind the Boston attacks. Nineteen percent are unsure.
In general, voters say homegrown terrorists like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (51 percent) pose a greater threat on U.S. soil than Islamic terrorists (26 percent).
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Fox News spins its own poll, which actually shows broad support for gun control
On more than one occasion over the past five years, I’ve noted that Fox News sometimes tries to downplay results of its own polls that don’t comport with the network’s ideological slant.
Such is the case with the latest Fox poll on the issue of gun control. The network’s Web site plays up poll results indicating public favor for wider ownership of firearms, but downplays, by comparison, results showing broad support for President Obama’s gun-control proposals.
In THIS REPORT published yesterday on the Fox News Web site, it’s not until the eighth paragraph that we see the following:
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Fox News poll: Obama leads Romney in presidential race and on a broad array of issues and character traits
As I’ve said here on numerous occasions, my favorite polls usually are those sponsored by Fox News — simply because conservatives can’t so easily shoot them down as politically biased.
Fox, like other major media outfits, hires a reputable, independent polling organization to conduct its surveys. The methods employed are scientific and time-tested. The results may not always please the talking heads on Fox News Channel, but that only bespeaks their reliability.
The latest Fox poll is bad news for Mitt Romney in many more ways than simply Barack Obama’s lead of five percentage points in the presidential race. To wit, the …
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Fox News poll: Obama takes 9-point lead over Romney
As I’ve said here on many occasions, my favorite polls usually are those sponsored by Fox News — simply because conservatives can’t so easily shoot them down as politically biased.
Fox, like other major media outfits, hires a reputable, independent polling organization to conduct its surveys. The methods employed are scientific and time-tested. The results may not always please the talking heads on Fox News Channel, but that only bespeaks their reliability.
Take, for example, THIS LATEST POLL from Fox:
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