New Poll: Public Believes John McCain, Not New York Times
The Swamp:
by Jill Zuckman
There is new evidence that the widely panned New York Times investigation into Sen. John McCain was a flop – not just with political insiders but with the public at large.
A poll by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Election Survey showed that two-thirds of the country’s adults have heard about the article and twice as many people believe McCain’s denunciation than believe the New York Times.
The article, which ran last month, suggested that McCain had a romantic relationship with a female lobbyist that benefited her clients before the Commerce Committee, which he chaired. McCain’s campaign pushed back hard against the story, saying it was false.
“More Americans believed Sen. John McCain’s explanation than believed the allegations reported in The New York Times story,” said Kate Kenski, a senior analyst for the survey and a professor of communication at the University of Arizona. “Republicans were over nine times as likely to report believing Sen. McCain as believing the New York Times. Independents were about twice as likely to say that they believed Sen. McCain as report believing the allegations in the Times.”
According to the study, the only groups likely to believe the newspaper were African Americans, Democrats and liberals. Conservative Republicans believed McCain by 65.5 percent compared to 6.3 percent who believed the newspaper.
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