Norah O’Donnell: Republicans More Uncomfortable With Fox Commentator as Presidential Candidate Than Mormon
CBS's new chief White House correspondent said this weekend that Republicans are more uncomfortable with a Fox News commentator as presidential candidate than they are a Mormon. She claimed on “The Chris Matthews Show” she found this information in the crosstabs of a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (video follows with transcript and commentary): NORAH O’DONNELL, CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT CBS NEWS: I went in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll and I checked the cross tabs on the amount of people that find that they are uncomfortable with a Mormon as a candidate, and actually among Republicans, they’re more uncomfortable with a Fox commentator than they are a Mormon. CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Who’s the Fox commentator? O’DONNELL: Any Fox commentator. [Laughter] O’DONNELL: They’re more uncomfortable with them being a Fox commentator than being a Mormon according to the cross tabs of our NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. MATTHEWS: Hmmm. I'm not questioning the new White House correspondent, but I examined the 31 pages of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday and I can't find what O'Donnell was talking about. The only reference to Fox is on page 28 in a question about where respondents get their news from. As for the word “Mormon,” it appears twice on page 31 in questions about respondents' religious beliefs. As such, I have no idea where O'Donnell got this from.
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Norah O’Donnell: Republicans More Uncomfortable With Fox Commentator as Presidential Candidate Than Mormon
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on June 19, 2011. Filed under