Who’s The Most Trusted Political Reporter? Close Race Between ‘Don’t Know’ And ‘Nobody’

The same poll that showed “undecided” narrowly beating Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination also showed voters are just as divided on political reporters. When asked by pollsters at Suffolk University which political reporter “you trust the most,” respondents (1,070 of them were polled) said “don’t know” (21%) followed by “none” (15%). So take that, Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper (neither of whom was among the names read to respondents in the poll) and John King (0%) and Christiane Amanpour (1%) who were.

So who did the rate well in the poll? Fox’s Bill O’Reilly led named newsers with 9%, followed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper (6%), Fox’s Mike Huckabee (4%) and NBC’s Brian Williams (4%). Yep, Huckabee got more votes as a trusted political reporter than BriWi did.

Campbell Brown, who’s no longer working at CNN, was included in the poll and named most trusted political reporter by five people (0%), which is better than David Gregory, who is working in television as host of one of the most important political shows on TV, Meet the Press, who got 2 votes (0%).

Read the full poll results here.

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