Toplines - Media - October 22-23, 2009
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Daily Snapshot
National Survey of 1,000 Likely
Voters
Conducted October 12-13, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports
1* When covering a political campaign, do most reporters
try to offer unbiased coverage or do they try to help the candidate they want
to win?
21% They try to offer unbiased
coverage
67% They try to help the candidate
they want to win
12% Not sure
2* Is the average reporter more liberal than you are,
more conservative, or about the same as you ideologically?
53% More liberal
16% More conservative
23% About the same
9% Not sure
3* Whose judgment do you trust
more when it comes to the important issues affecting the nation-- yourself or
the average reporter?
85% Yourself
4% The average reporter
11% Not sure
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points
with a 95% level of confidence
