NBC News Senior Political Editor, Mark Murray, joins the podcast to discuss NBC’s new poll, focusing on Americans’ opinions of the nature of social media. Many Americans consider social media to be divisive, but it may surprise you which political party is more likely to have this opinion. Then, we take a look at the media outlets Americans perceive to be mainstream, compliments of a new Pew Research Center Poll.
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, Senior Political Editor at NBC News, Mark Murray, joins the team. The topic: a new NBC News poll about social media. Turns out, many Americans use social media and agree that it can be divisive. Which groups believe that social media divides us the most? We dig into the details.
Then, we take a look at a recent Pew Research Center poll about mainstream media. What’s that?! Spoiler alert, there’s consensus about which media outlets are mainstream, even if they don’t watch them.
Then, Lee has another fun fact, or not so fun fact…. We’ll let him decide!
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Poll Hub goes behind the science to explain how polling works, what polls really show, and what the numbers really mean. Poll Hub is produced by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, home of America’s leading independent college public opinion poll, The Marist Poll. Lee Miringoff (Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion), Barbara Carvalho (Director of the Marist Poll), and Jay DeDapper (Director of Innovation at the Marist Poll) dig deep to give you a look at the inner workings of polls and what they tell us about our world, our country, and ourselves.