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To: spiral3 who wrote (70468)	6/3/2008 2:30:20 PM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 542946

Candidates Meet the Press: Who Gets the Toughest Coverage? By CQ Staff New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and some of her supporters have said during the campaign that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has received far gentler treatment from the press than she has, and two different studies out today give differing perspectives on how strong that case is. While a Gallup poll conducted May 19-20 finds that while most voters think coverage of Clinton, Obama and Arizona Sen. John McCain is about right, 30 percent said the media has been too hard on Clinton, a significantly higher figure than the other two. But a joint study by Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center concludes that Obama and Clinton have fared about equally - and that Clinton’s own tactic of alleging differences in their coverage may have been a factor. Rest of it and analysis of poll results here: cqpolitics.com