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In 2008, this study documented a clear and almost mirror-image ideological divide on cable between Fox News Channel and MSNBC. Both MSNBC and Fox deviated from the rest of the media in their treatment of McCain and Obama in roughly equal measure, with MSNBC more positive about Obama and negative about McCain than the rest, […]
One lesson derived from coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign is that despite being viewed as anachronistic political pageants, some traditional set piece campaign events still have the potential to dramatically reshape a presidential race by changing the mainstream media narrative. In 2012, campaign coverage was significantly affected by several such events. That began with […]
Contact: Tom Rosenstiel, Amy Mitchell or Mark Jurkowitz of PEJ at 202.419.3650 The Final Days of the Media Campaign 2012: Obama enjoys surge in positive coverage the last week of the race; Attention to Romney drops November 19, 2012 – In the final days of the 2012 presidential campaign, Barack Obama enjoyed his most positive […]
Overall, both candidates received more negative stories than positive ones. But for the full eight weeks studied, the gap was about half as big for Obama (11 points) as it was for Romney (23 points). That difference disappears if horse-race coverage-stories focused on tactics, strategy and the question of who was winning-are removed from the […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 2012, among a national sample of 1,003 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (601 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 402 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 198 who had no […]
In winning reelection, Barack Obama won 60% of the vote among those younger than 30. That was down somewhat from 2008, when Obama won nearly two-thirds (66%) of the votes of young people. However, Obama’s youth support may have been an even more important factor in his victory this year than it was in 2008. […]
Library Services Survey Prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project November 2012 SUMMARY The Library Services Survey obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,252 people ages 16 and older living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=1,127) and cell […]