Posted on 04/01/2012 9:44:59 AM PDT by Mountain Mary
Fox Ratings Down; Romney Scores Historic Negative Rating; Women Love Santorum March 29, 2012by Lisa Graas
Mitt, don't count your chickens before they hatch. Sincerely, A Chicken Farmer. Several things are happening that indicate to me that some truth is coming out…albeit slowly. In my humble opinion, Fox News ratings are down 17% because viewers grow weary of their being so clearly biased in favor of Mitt Romney, but don’t look for them to see it that way. For the month, Fox News is down -17% in Total Viewers and down -27% in younger viewers for Total Day viewing vs. March 2011. The loss in Primetime is not as great: -9% in Total Viewers and -26% in younger viewers. Despite his millions, Romney has set a record in negative ratings: Mitt Romney trails Barack Obama by 19 points in basic popularity as the 2012 presidential contest inches closer to the main event, with a record 50 percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll now rating Romney unfavorably overall. Thirty-four percent hold a favorable opinion of Romney, the lowest for any leading presidential candidate in ABC/Post polls in primary seasons since 1984. His unfavorable score is higher than Obama ever has received; it’s been exceeded by just one other Republican candidate this year, Newt Gingrich, and by only one top candidate in 28 years, Hillary Clinton in 2008. Also, women love Rick Santorum. At least, conservative women do. This article at Politico about that can be highly misleading, though. [Emphasis mine.] But far from being scared off by Santorum, conservative women are zealously embracing him. The former Pennsylvania senator, who is ardently anti-abortion and against birth control, has won the female vote in a large handful of states in the Republican presidential contest so far, particularly in the South. He also has the highest favorability rating among women of any GOP contender. Rick Santorum is personally against birth control but he would not ban it. What the Left is so concerned about is that Rick Santorum thinks something about religion that they don’t want him to think, and so they tell people that because he thinks it, it means he wants a law about it. This is anti-Catholicism in that it indicates falsehood about what it means to be a Catholic candidate for office and it seems to be done intentionally, to build misplaced resentment against Rick Santorum. The reason Rick Santorum wouldn’t ban contraception is because he believes in E Pluribus Unum and also, I am guessing, that our faith requires that we not try to ram our beliefs down other people’s throats. We know that if we try that, we will only succeed in building resentment and that is not in accordance with our faith. Santorum frequently speaks about the American principle of E Pluribus Unum on the campaign trail, so reporters should know where he stands on how to heal polarization. America is a land of very diverse beliefs but we have to find agreement on basic principles as the Founders of America did. The reason he wouldn’t ban contraception is because so many in America are not personally opposed to it and because so many actually use it. To try to ban it would go completely against what he is about regarding agreement on basic principles and silence in the law on those matters we can’t find agreement on. So, for Politico to say he is “against birth control” without offering any kind of clarification as to what that means specifically is not really fair at all to Rick Santorum. In other news: HERE IS A MUST READ on the delegate math, according to the Santorum campaign. Newt has cut staff and, according to Stacy McCain, his campaign is “unsustainable.” Mitt Romney is still tone-deaf. Though Thomas Peters of Catholic Vote has clearly made a good case for Rick Santorum, Santorum isn’t winning the “Catholic vote” writ large with “Catholic” meaning anyone who identifies as “Catholic” to a pollster. These would include “Catholics” who are not at all okay with a faithful Catholic running as president. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney has Mormon “Romniacs” according to the Washington Post: They are Mitt Romney’s superfans. To be clear: These “Romniacs” are not Wall Street bigwigs or paid campaign operatives. Many of them, but not all, are Mormons like Romney. What unites them is a powerful — and unusual — excitement for a candidate who struggles to excite anybody else. I’m not so sure. I’ve seen a lot of bigwigs for Mitt Romney. This race is far from over. Donate to Rick Santorum today.
If I remember remember correctly, there were recent protestations from fox news personalities like BOR, that they were not biased for Mitt.
Obama’s stormtroopers and the Rinos ganged up on Murdock for being conservative and he buckled under, firing Beck and Judge Napolitano. They both had popular shows drawing a different segment of the audience (constitutional conservatives and libertarian independents) from the Ted Baxter and Republican parrot “conservative” crowd. That was probably about 17% (or more) of Fox’s news audience they irked enough to get them to turn off the television.
Fox can be loved by the illiberals or they can be loved by their audience. Fox decided they loved the pinkos more than success. Let them compete with CNN for the same audience. I’m sure they will do fine...like the GOP with Romney is doing fine.
No, many conservatives with-held their votes from McLame, GIVING YOU OBAMA.
At least be accurate.
Now you are going to with-hold your vote for Idiot RINomney, GIVING ME OBAMA.
Thanks, loads. With conservatives like that, who needs liberals.
They've really lost their way, planned and knowingly I think.
It's not just Romney. Fox is NOT fair and balance on lots of issues. Two for example are:
1) Obama’s eligibility. Horrible, head in the sand, reporting on that issue.
2) Homosexual outrages against Christians.
I turned them completely off in s 2008 when they muzzled their TV personalities on Obama’s eligibility. ( Traitors!)
I dumped cable...i had a short withdrawal..about a week...my guitar playing has improved! :)
thx, it gave me a chuckle....
Hey you idiots at Fox News, if you want me to watch again, start telling me Who, What, When and How and QUIT telling me WHY. I have my own opinions.
Love it, FINF.
“It is amazing the length that Romney botts will go to in order to avoid the dreaded ZOT.”
Not sure what you mean, but I would be even less inclined to vote for Romney. The bottom line is we have been defeated by the Republican machine. Now all that remains is for us to make the decision- do we vote for Romney or abstain? I would choose the latter, on the grounds that Romney’s vision for the country is the same as every other treacherous liberal cur out there, and I will not help them achieve that objective.
We shall see but do remember that NBC is now majority owned by Comcast, the cable television giant, not the Obama loving General Electric of Jeffrey Immelt.
The Comcast honcho Brian Roberts met Sarah Palin when she was holed up in Philadelphia by the McCain Machine during the campaign four years ago.
Was that meeting the beginning of a series of events that led to this moment???????
I think I was responding to Mountain Mary. I suspect many of the attack dogs here savaging Santorum with the supposed purpose of advancing Newt, were really Romney supporters. If that shoe doesn’t fit you, don't put it on.
I purposely did not attack Newt, first because he is an excellent choice, and second it does nothing to keep Romney from winning.
You can go back to the beginning when we had the original nine candidates, I warned then that none of those currently running on the GOP ticket would ever be president. I am now more than ever convinced that will be the case.
It is not as if I don’t understand your frustation. I too want a genuine conservative president. Just my choice this November will be a squishy RINO and a communist. I can’t indulge my fantasy to write in Palin for president just to give me the joy of not having to vote for Idiot Romney. I can’t sit by and watch Obama codify Obamacare and nominate another 2 communist wise Latinas to the Supreme Court.
But you enjoy yourself. It will be a lot of fun not having to vote for Idiot RINOmney. It won’t be so much fun when you are screaming about Obama’s 5th year, and 6th year, and 7th year, and 8th year in office, while he is entrenching the government in hard socialism and the EPA is crushing our economy.
As long as you are having fun. That’s all that counts.
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