09/05/01: survey of reporters 1992 election-89% voted for Clinton. 7% voted for Bush.
Posted by: grundle2600@hotmail.com (grundle)
http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/news/tcstat.html
Reporters voted overwhelmingly for Clinton, call themselves liberal and had little respect for the Contract with America:
89% of Washington reporters voted for Bill Clinton in 1992.
7% voted for George Bush in 1992.
61% called themselves "liberal" or "moderate to liberal."
9% "conservative" or "moderate to conservative."
50% said they are Democrats.
4% are Republicans.
59% called the Contract with America "an election year campaign ploy."
3% thought it was "a serious reform proposal."
Source: Roper Center poll for the Freedom Forum of 139 Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents, released April 1996.
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