Media Matters for America

Matthews: "They're the working-class white voters ... the regular folks"
On the June 30 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews teased an upcoming segment by saying: "Up next: They're the working-class white voters Hillary won and Barack didn't. Can Obama win over the regular folks against John McCain?" Read More

Matthews: Does Obama "connect with regular people" or just African-Americans and college grads?

Matthews: Is Obama "too University of Chicago or too South Side Chicago" for working-class voters?

Matthews says Obama's six-point lead is "almost ... negligible" after suggesting a six-point lead for McCain among suburban white women is significant
Discussing a Washington Post/ABC News poll, Chris Matthews characterized Sen. Barack Obama's six-point lead over Sen. John McCain as "almost ... negligible" a day after he falsely suggested -- for the second time -- that McCain's six-point lead over Obama among white suburban women in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was statistically significant. Read More

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MSNBC's Hardball again falsely suggested McCain holds statistically significant lead over Obama among white suburban women
Chris Matthews again aired an on-screen graphic that falsely suggested that Sen. John McCain's lead of 44 percent to 38 percent over Sen. Barack Obama among white suburban women in a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was statistically significant. A chart that appeared on-screen provided only the margin of error for the survey as a whole -- 3.1 percentage points -- and not the margin of error of 9.34 percentage points for the subset of white suburban women. Read More