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Democracy Corps Poll: Americans See Limbaugh as a Top Leader of GOP; Doesn’t Share Their Values


Democracy Corps Poll: Americans See Limbaugh as a Top Leader of GOP; Doesn’t Share Their Values

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– Media Matters for America today released the following statement in response to a new poll by Democracy Corps which analyzed “Republican Leadership and Rush Limbaugh.”

“The results of this poll confirm what our work over the past five years has demonstrated: that Rush Limbaugh is out of the mainstream and that Americans do not share his extremist values,” said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters. “All Americans have a right to know and should be concerned that a right-wing media figure is pulling the strings of the Republican Party and their elected officials.”

Media Matters has documented hundreds of examples of how Limbaugh is out of touch with the majority of the country. We recently launched the Limbaugh Wire, a resource center of our latest research on the top-rated radio talk show host.

Key Findings:

The following data is based on a national Democracy Corps survey of 1,000 2008 voters (830 landline, 170 cell phone weighted; 880 landline, 120 cell phone unweighted) conducted March 5 through 8, 2009. Margin of error: 3.1 percent. Some data shown reflects results from 830 likely 2010 voters (863 unweighted; margin of error 3.4 percent).

A Question of Limbaugh’s Republican Leadership

  • After McCain and Gingrich, Limbaugh seen as among most influential to Republican Party:
John McCain 38%
Newt Gingrich 25%
Rush Limbaugh 24%
Others 78%
Respondents were allowed to choose two Republican leaders in this question.

Americans’ Views of Limbaugh

  • 57 % feel Rush Limbaugh “does not share my values”
Shares Values Doesn’t Share
Conservative Republicans 66% 25%
Moderate/Liberal Republican 39% 39%
Moderate/Conservative Dems 13% 77%
Liberal Democrats 10% 86%

To see more of Media Matters research on Limbaugh, please visit:

http://mediamatters.org/limbaughwire/

OR for our greatest hits of Limbaugh, please visit:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200903030034

To see the entire results of the Democracy Corps poll, please visit:

http://www.democracycorps.com/strategy/2009/03/rush-limbaugh-weighs-down-heavily-on-republicans/


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