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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for May 31, 2023
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
May 31, 2023: Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters believe that political reporters are generally more interested in helping the candidate they want to win than they are about reporting the news accurately. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that just 28% believe political reporters are more interested in accurate reporting.
The survey also found that voters have generally unfavorable views of media figures on the right and the left. By a margin of 40% to 37%, voters have unfavorable opinions of Tucker Carlson, and by a 38% to 25% margin, they have unfavorable opinions of Rachel Maddow.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 Registered Voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on May 17-18, 2023. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the -sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Survey Questions
Generally speaking, are political reporters more interested in reporting the news accurately or on helping the candidates they want to win?
- 28%-Reporting the news accurately
- 55%-Helping the candidate they want to win
- 17%-Not sure
Please let me know if you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following individuals:
Tucker Carlson
- 18%-Very favorable
- 19%-Somewhat favorable
- 12%-Somewhat unfavorable
- 28%-Very unfavorable
- 13%-Never heard of him or her
- 11%-Not sure
Rachel Maddow
- 9%-Very favorable
- 16%-Somewhat favorable
- 13%-Somewhat unfavorable
- 25%-Very unfavorable
- 21%-Never heard of him or her
- 17%-Not sure
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