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.
I can’t read that, after the frist few sentences (though I agree largely I am sure).
Thanks Naps.
I’m so tired from working on the campaign that I’m going to take a nap.
I think there is going to be such a huge backlash from Conservatives if Mitt is the candidate, the likes of which we haven’t seen before. It will mobilize and motivate us..in ways that aren’t revealed yet. The GOP is going to have consequences, of that I am sure.
And God will play a huge part. :-)
And I won’t vote from Romney ever. It goes against my principles.
See my post above.
You think you're joking? If Romney gets the nomination and his past holds true, then we'd have to choose between Romneycare or Obamacare, between Romney's support of the homoseual agenda or Obama's.
We need to do everything we can to avoid having to choose between the two in November, IMHO.
I have significantly reduced my viewing of FOX after Glenn Beck left. Love him, hate him, he certainly brought a huge spotlight on this administration and all the SELF AVOWED Marxists, Maoists, progressives contained therein.
Name one other network with the viewership numbers amassed by Glenn who brought forth such important information on those who, in their own words want to fundamentally change this country.
The only thing I can say about FOX’s apparent choice for president is at least he does not HATE the USA or white people as does our current president and his wookie wife. That certainly is not a ringing endorsement but a marginal step in the right direction.
Mary, copying & pasting from a website doesn’t include the formatting. You have to add that yourself. Us common HTML code for paragraph breaks, line breaks, text formatting for bold, underline, etc. Then preview before posting.
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.
Can still be broken up into more paragraphs.
Thanks Pinkbell. I also posted the link.
A link; I thought you wrote it. I didn’t break it down into near as many paragraphs, so people would be best to check the link.
All I can add is that I used to have my TV on FoxNews all the time, for years. Since the channel started (around 1996), in fact. But in the past six months or so, I’ve cut back on my viewership by virtually 95%. First it was the crappy/dismissive treatment constantly given towards Palin last year, then it morphed into all the nonstop Romney cheerleading. Just couldn’t stomach it any more.
Indeed, if Romney is the nominee, I doubt I’ll be bothering with much news viewing for the rest of the year. The depressing prospect of that is enough to kill my three-decades long status as a “news junkie.” I’m just going to sit back watch my dvd’s of old westerns and whatnot, and say to hell with it all.
There is 312,000,000 people in the USA and 0bama and Romney are the only two that I won't vote for in the POTUS race.
Not that it matters because between the two, 0bama is a shoe-in!
Duh.
It’s because not only has Fox News become a fully-owned arm of the increasingly mamby-pamby GOP establishment.
They’re not even about news anymore.
Fox News has become a tabloid. A platform for personalities.
Not news.
My family quit watching FOX last week of January.
Since then the wife and I are “relating” better. My golf scores are 6-10 strokes lower. My gas mileage is up. The kids’ grades are higher and they are doing better at sports. The crops are better than i’ve seen in years. Even fishing is better. 04/01/12
To everyone have a great day! No Joke.
Yeah I don’t see how anyone watches “news entertainment” Paying people to tell me what they think just makes no sense to me. Add to that, that about 75% have no expertise whatsoever and, well ... I just read all I can online.
“Here’s GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum on “Face the Nation,” assessing shooter George Zimmerman’s mental health. “Someone has a very sick mind who would pursue someone like this, Santorum said. “This is clearly a heinous act. You know, there are a lot of people who have a lot of distorted views of reality...And my heart goes out to the parents, too. I can’t imagine what they’re suffering, losing their son in such a horrific way. All I would say is that, whatever the motive is, it was a malicious one.” “
Sorry, I could never vote for this clown. That performance, pandering so spinelessly to the left wing media, finished Santorum for ever for me.
What has “Mountain Mary” been smoking? Santorum is dead, but she refuses to bury him.
I don’t watch any of them either. They are all propaganda driven now. All the arguing and whining liberals make me sick. If I want to hear a screeching idiot, I’d watch Jerry Springer.
Why should we watch Fox when we already have ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN to not watch too!!
I believe you, all except about the gas mileage :P
News is poison of the mind and soul.
It is absolute mind control, turn it off and free yourself.
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