HOW BIASED CAN CNN BE?

A CNN/ORC poll released shortly after the last debate found that Hillary Clinton scored a clear victory over her rival Donald Trump. One problem – the survey sample included 41% Democrats compared to just 26% Republicans. Asked, “Who do you think did the best job in the debate – Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?”, 62% of respondents said Hillary while 27% said Trump.

This immediately gave the impression that Hillary trounced Trump in the debate, and set the standard for the media narrative that it was a bad night for the Republican candidate. However, 33% of the people surveyed in the poll identified as Independents, 41% identified as Democrats, while just 26% identified as Republicans. This represents a disparity of 15% between Democrats and Republicans – meaning the poll was heavily weighted in favor of Democrats before the question about who won the debate was even asked. Almost three quarters of the respondents were not Republicans and 57% more Democrats were asked than Republicans. If the sampling was flipped, with 41% of respondents being Republican and just 26% identifying as Democrats, the outcome would almost certainly have been in Trump’s favor.

The CNN poll is contradicted by numerous other polls which show that Trump won the debate. These polls have been disparaged by Hillary supporters, who claim they are unscientific and were gamed by pro-Trump trolls. However, a Time poll that showed Trump ahead by 59% to 41% swung heavily in Clinton’s favor after she suddenly received a surge of nearly 300,000 votes – suggesting that both sides were involved in gaming the results. While the consensus opinion appears to be that Clinton won on points but Trump achieved his mission of appearing electable, the gross bias exhibited in CNN’s sampling – along with moderator Lester Holt’s failure to ask Hillary any tough questions fuel accusations made by Trump supporters that the entire race is being rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton.

For those who have been following U.S. politics the past few months, it's pretty much common knowledge that CNN is extremely biased for Hillary Clinton. This can probably attributed to the fact that CNN's parent company Time Warner, is the 8th largest donor to Hillary in her political career.  As  long as CNN is covering anything related to politics, opponents of Hillary's are not being fairly covered. 

Not only are they biased in their coverage, they are clearly pushing an agenda, attempting to influence the casual viewer into believing their politics. As a major American news network, CNN should be giving or at least attempting to not take stances in their coverage. But unfortunately, CNN is owned and operated by large puppeteers in the background. So even trying to negotiate with them seems pointless. And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that CNN doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing.