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Yet if the communications of politics is changing, it hasn't changed that much yet. Limbaugh still has about 14.75 million listeners, according to Talkers Magazine. Hannity has about 13 million. Even the most successful liberal hosts, such as Schultz, Miller and Franken, don't come close yet. None made the top 30 talk radio shows as ranked by Talkers Magazine.

Did they learn how to put a comparable statistiscal data in school? Limbaugh and Hannity numbers are # of listeners. Those libs' are talk radio show ranks.

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There was a pair wise comparison:"My numbers are going up, and theirs are going down. But if I have a million and half people listening to me, that's still just one-tenth of Rush's audience."

[IndyInVa]

Comparing apples to oranges helps obscure the yawning gulf between them.

JMO, but I think another factor is that there are other CONSERVATIVE choices. I think Limbaugh and Hannity have lost listeners to Beck, Doyle, Scarborough, etc. The listeners are still conservative and still hearing the conservative message, just not from the same 2 talkers.