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Donald Trump’s Support Plummets Among Fox News Fans

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on December 14, 2017 · Flag

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Despite Fox News’ best efforts, the support for Donald Trump among its most devoted viewers has plunged in the last six months.

The Washington Post's Philip Bump analyzed the findings of a new Suffolk University poll and came up with some fascinating insights about those who said Fox News was their most-trusted news network:

In March, Fox viewers were 40 points more likely to view Trump positively than were voters overall. By December, they were only 24 points more likely to do so — even though the numbers for Republicans — with which Fox viewership overlaps to some extent — remained fairly high. (Among those who trust CNN the most, the second-most popular network, Trump’s numbers have been consistently dismal, ticking up only slightly of late.)

As you might expect, the percent of Fox viewers who see Trump unfavorably has climbed. In the most recent poll, more than a third of that group says they view him negatively, twice as high as the percentage of Republicans.

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And while Trump’s approval among Republicans was still fairly high, the number of voters who said that they strongly approved of him sunk from 55 percent in March among Fox viewers to only 32 percent in October.

It’s not clear why the most loyal Fox News fans dislike Trump so much more than Republicans. For one thing, it’s hard to imagine that such fans would not be Republicans. Given Fox’s coziness with Trump, it’s just as hard to imagine that a hard-core Fox fan would not have the same warm, fuzzy feelings for him.

So my theory is that viewers who trust Fox the most are independent-minded contrarians, meaning they are prone to mistrust the “mainstream media” but do not necessarily swallow Fox News propaganda unquestioningly.

Whatever the reason, the poll findings are bad news for Trump as well as for those Fox News sycophants whose only job requirements seem to be making him look good and gushing over how good he is.

But the poll could be good news for the rest of us.

What are your theories to explain the discrepancy between Fox News loyalists and Republicans? I’d love to know.

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John McKee commented 2017-12-18 20:15:42 -0500 · Flag
What I am seeing is that Fox ‘News’ has a tricky choice coming up. Having recently been immersed in the Insider site (as a kind of missionary to the savages), the most fervent nutjobs are totally wedded to Cheeto don Tweeto.

In the internecine war coming up, Fox must choose a side* – between the devil and the deep red sea. Either way, they’re going to lose hordes of the hitherto faithful.

*There is of course, a third option. They COULD turn over a new leaf and go ‘legit’, but then snowballs COULD enjoy lovely vacation time in Hell.
Ellen commented 2017-12-17 04:13:07 -0500 · Flag
Steve M.

That’s an interesting theory and quite plausible.
Steve M. commented 2017-12-16 13:01:42 -0500 · Flag
Thanks for spotting this, Ellen. My theory: Fox broadcasts on reason after another for its viewers to feel angry, and Trump isn’t solving these real or imagined problems fast enough for their satisfaction.

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2017/12/do-fox-viewers-think-trump-is-not.html
scooter commented 2017-12-15 13:04:23 -0500 · Flag
Hmmm, could it be that even idiots don’t like grifters once they catch on to the scam?
mlp ! commented 2017-12-15 00:20:45 -0500 · Flag
Well, I don’t really care what Fox viewers ‘think’, because they don’t usually have the capacity to ‘think’.
HOWEVER, I have noticed a lot of silence from the Trump supporters that I personally know.
I’m enjoying that part.
Willy Grooters commented 2017-12-14 20:01:46 -0500 · Flag
- And that (see below) – of course – includes the people watching Faux/FOX News.
Willy Grooters commented 2017-12-14 19:59:50 -0500 · Flag
- Perhaps more and more of our fellow (US) citizens are learning how Trump and his buddies don’t have the best in mind fror them. Think: Trump’s tax cuts for the rich and the taks increases for the rest of us. In one poll some 70% of both Democratic and Republican voters thought the new tax proposals were good for the rich and bad for the rest of the population.
- However, the taxdeduction for mortgage interest payments is a subsidy for the creditors/banks, NOT the mortgage holders.








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