Mediabistro.com is partnering up with Poll Position, the new polling company founded by former CNN executive Eason Jordan. On occasion, TVNewser and our other blogs will share results from Poll Position polls having to do with news media consumption and coverage. Each Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday night, Poll Position conducts national telephone polling, asking more than 1,000 Americans 10 hot topic questions in addition to demographic questions – gender, race, age, political affiliation. Among the Poll Position questions this week was the following:
Do you believe that the news media have treated presidential candidate Herman Cain fairly?
Yes
No
N/O
43.5% 37.1% 19.4% National Telephone Poll of 1,184 Registered Voters / 11.10.11 / Margin of Error +/- 3%
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While it is close, a plurality of respondents believe that the news media has treated Cain fairly. Broken down into specific demographics however, the responses are quite different:
Poll Position Crosstabs – Herman Cain-Media
As you can see in the crosstabs, a plurality of African Americans and a majority of Republicans believed that Cain has not been treated fairly by the news media. Just about every other demographic group disagreed.