Perhaps Rasmussen should ask its sample respondents whether they think the poll they're answering has a bias as well.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters now do not trust the political news they are getting. That's a 16-point jump from 45% last October. Twenty-one percent (21%) still have confidence in the political coverage they get, but that's down from 33% in the earlier survey. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
When it comes to the 2016 presidential campaign, only 23% believe most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage. Fifty-nine percent (59%) think that coverage will be slanted instead, with 36% who say most reporters will try to help Hillary Clinton during the campaign and 23% who say they will try to hurt her bid for the White House instead. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.
1* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of George Stephanopoulos?
2* Stephanopoulos, a senior ABC News anchor and former Clinton White House official, has now acknowledged that he failed to disclose $75,000 in contributions he made to the Clinton Foundation. With Hillary Clinton running for president, should ABC ban Stephanopoulos from any programming related to the presidential campaign?
3* Are you more likely or less likely to believe the reporting on ABC News because Stephanopoulos failed to disclose this seeming conflict of interest? Or does it have no impact on your confidence in ABC’s reporting?
4* When it comes to the presidential campaign, will most reporters try to help or hurt Hillary Clinton, or will they try to offer unbiased coverage?