{"id":9892,"date":"2015-06-17T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2015-06-17T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:59:14","slug":"fox-news-continues-to-blackout-rand-paul-in-their-poll-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/17\/fox-news-continues-to-blackout-rand-paul-in-their-poll-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News continues to blackout Rand Paul in their poll coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, Fox News forgot to include Sen. Rand Paul in their coverage of a new 2016 presidential poll, even though the senator outperformed other candidates mentioned and the survey cited made Paul a significant part of their original headline.<\/p>\n

Quinnipiac released a poll today featuring the headline \u201cFive Leaders In 2016 Republican White House Race, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Rubio, Paul Are Only Republicans Even Close To Clinton.\u201d Yet in Fox News\u2019 coverage, Paul apparently didn\u2019t register enough to justify being shown on the broadcast of the poll.<\/p>\n

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In the poll, Rand Paul polled at 7 percent, ahead of Sen. Ted Cruz who received 6 percent.<\/p>\n

But Cruz was featured in Fox News\u2019 coverage of the poll.<\/p>\n

Instead of mentioning Rand Paul\u2019s competitiveness against Hillary Clinton (Paul and Rubio paired better against the former Secretary of State than any other Republicans), Fox left Paul\u2019s name out to focus on lower-tier performers Donald Trump and John Kasich.<\/p>\n

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For those who are unfamiliar with this tendency of pretending Paul does not exist in Fox News\u2019 poll coverage, two weeks ago, the news channel\u00a0conducted an in-house poll that pitted 2016 Republican hopefuls against Hillary Clinton. Somehow in their quest for numbers to crunch, the news agency failed to ask poll participants their opinions on a Paul v. Clinton match-up and left him off of their poll completely.<\/p>\n

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Despite this Fox News survey blackout, Paul polled significantly high against Hillary Clinton in states such as New Hampshire, Colorado, and Iowa.<\/p>\n

In early May Fox News put Paul\u2019s name last\u00a0although he was the highest polling candidate among the four featured.<\/p>\n

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Once again, Fox News forgot to include Sen. Rand Paul in their coverage of a new 2016 presidential poll, even though the senator outperformed other candidates mentioned and the survey cited made Paul a significant part of their original headline. Quinnipiac released a poll today featuring the headline \u201cFive Leaders In 2016 Republican White House Race, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Rubio, Paul Are Only Republicans Even Close To Clinton.\u201d Yet in Fox News\u2019 coverage, Paul apparently didn\u2019t register enough to justify being shown on the broadcast of the poll. In the poll, Rand Paul polled at 7 percent, ahead of Sen. Ted Cruz who received 6 percent. But Cruz was featured in Fox News\u2019 coverage of the poll. Instead of mentioning Rand Paul\u2019s competitiveness against Hillary Clinton (Paul and Rubio paired better against the former Secretary of State than any other Republicans), Fox left Paul\u2019s name out to focus on lower-tier performers Donald Trump and John Kasich.   … For those who are unfamiliar with this tendency of pretending Paul does not exist in Fox News\u2019 poll coverage, two weeks ago, the news channel\u00a0conducted an in-house poll that pitted 2016 Republican hopefuls against Hillary Clinton. Somehow in their quest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}