While there are such things as accurate and misleading headlines, there are also occasions when a headline may be accurate but doesn't tell the whole story. Such is the case with the recent Pew Research headline, "Most Americans say more women running for Congress is a good thing, as hope for a female president grows."
Generally speaking, the headline is accurate, as the polls shows, among all adults, 61% believe more women running for Congress is a good thing, compared to 5% who feel it's a bad thing, which is a net of +56% (33% said it's neither good nor bad). Let's take a closer look at those numbers, though. Among Democrats, 80% feel more women running for Congress is a good thing, compared to 1% who don't, which is a net of +79%. Among Republicans, only 39% feel more women running for Congress is a good thing, while 10% do not, which is a net of just +29%. That's a 50-point gap between the two parties. While 4 in every 5 Democrats feel more women running for Congress is a good thing, less than 2 in 5 Republicans feel similarly. So, sure, a majority of Americans may think more women running for Congress is a good thing, as the headline contends, but that ignores the fact one of the two major parties does not and is being made to look deceivingly open-minded and progressive with vague headlines such as this. A more appropriate headline would have been, "Most Americans say more women running for Congress is a good thing, especially Democrats, as a large percentage of Republicans appear to still live in the 1850s."
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/22/most-americans-say-more-women-running-for-congress-is-a-good-thing/
Generally speaking, the headline is accurate, as the polls shows, among all adults, 61% believe more women running for Congress is a good thing, compared to 5% who feel it's a bad thing, which is a net of +56% (33% said it's neither good nor bad). Let's take a closer look at those numbers, though. Among Democrats, 80% feel more women running for Congress is a good thing, compared to 1% who don't, which is a net of +79%. Among Republicans, only 39% feel more women running for Congress is a good thing, while 10% do not, which is a net of just +29%. That's a 50-point gap between the two parties. While 4 in every 5 Democrats feel more women running for Congress is a good thing, less than 2 in 5 Republicans feel similarly. So, sure, a majority of Americans may think more women running for Congress is a good thing, as the headline contends, but that ignores the fact one of the two major parties does not and is being made to look deceivingly open-minded and progressive with vague headlines such as this. A more appropriate headline would have been, "Most Americans say more women running for Congress is a good thing, especially Democrats, as a large percentage of Republicans appear to still live in the 1850s."
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/22/most-americans-say-more-women-running-for-congress-is-a-good-thing/
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