Well, I think she had a large audience originally, because she was not a race baiter. Plenty of white women watched her, and when she recommended a book, it always did well.
All that changed when she jumped in the tank for Obama.
And now that she’s refused to campaign for Obama again, she’s probably lost a lot of blacks and leftists as well.
She still supports him though.
Oprah Backs Obama but ‘Not Going to Be Out There’
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/oprah-backs-obama-but-not-going-to-be-out-there/
Oprah Winfrey said today that while she is “not going to be out there” as a booster for President Obama during the 2012 general election campaign, her support has not dimmed.
“I’m 100 percent behind our president. I actually love our president, and have the utmost respect for him and that office and what it takes to be there,” Winfrey told Charlie Rose on CBS’ “This Morning.”
“I will not be out there because I’m trying to fix a network,” she said.
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Oprah appeared last month at an intimate, high-dollar fundraiser for Obama’s re-election effort at the Atlanta home of actor-producer Tyler Perry.
Women watched Oprah because her show was on free TV.
They got the magazine with a one time cheap sign up subscription and can’t afford to renew it at it’s regular price.
They don’t have Oprah in their home everyday telling them to buy what she buys, vote how she votes and care about what she cares about...they are sheep without a shepherd.
Out of sight, out of mind....that simple.
I'm actually surprised it turned out that way. The way those fainting women fans of hers would shriek and cry and clap when she came out on stage.....I thought they'd follow her off a cliff.