Posted on 01/29/2016 9:50:49 AM PST by xzins
The first Republican presidential debate of the season without front-runner Donald Trump generated smaller viewer interest than all but one of this cycle's prior GOP gatherings, according to preliminary Nielsen estimates â but still drew four times as many viewers as Trump's competing event.
In the metered-market overnights, which represent 56 of the nation's largest markets, Fox News Channel's debate from Iowa averaged an 8.4 household rating. This is up vs. the 7.4 overnight rating for the most recent GOP debate, on Fox Business Network earlier this month, but it stands as the second lowest-rated of the six Republican gatherings this cycle.
Nielsen will issue total-viewer estimates later Friday, but it's likely that last night's debate on FNC averaged in the vicinity of 12 million viewers.
Curiosity over the unpredictable Trump fueled record tune-in for the first GOP debate last summer, as Fox News Channel drew 24 million in August
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You support croney capitalism then? Isn't this what we're trying to do away with? Trump sold the Conservatives out for his own personal gain. You agree with what he's done?
media outlet charged with neutrality giving money to the person theyâre supposed to be covering?
Again, corporate corruption. It's just like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, ...it goes on and on.
So why not vote for a Constitutionalists who believes these things are not only harmful to out Republic, but just plain wrong? Why not give THAT guy the bully pulpit???
Amnesty. I guess that explains this favorable story about Rubio and the debate.
I'm not angry. I'm befuddled. Why in the world would FReepers support a NYC far left wing progressive just because he SAYS he's conservative? If Bloomburg SAID he saw the Conservative light and decided to run, would FReepers be as enthusiastic for him as they are for Trump?
By his fruits ye will know him!
I understand support for any other candidate, because at least they have a history of being somewhat conservative. It makes big a difference. I completely understand a FREeper can have a middle ground for how much Conservatism they'll except. but I don't understand the support for Trumps fake Conservatism on this scale. It doesn't make sense.
Cruz did.
No one cared he wasn't there.
Cruz did.
Maybe because he’s not what you think....
He’s changed his position on several critical issues as he has evolved from a CEO into a politician....
He’s a very effective CEO that will get things done....
If he is all you think he is, there should be a line-up of ex-employees with complaints...haven’t seen any....In fact, even his chief political counsel that he fired early on in his campaign only has praise for him.
He may not have the pure credentials of a conservative like Cruz but he has other critical qualifications that Cruz doesn’t possess. Both would be equally acceptable.
As I stated, I don’t have a vote yet and I’m waiting to see how this plays out, either Cruz or Trump would be qualified.
The good news for us, both will totally disrupt the GOPe leadership and the RINO’s are running scared....
Either way we take back the party from the establishment....
How dare someone point out the obvious conclusion.
Fox News’ Trump-less debate Thursday night drew 12.5 million viewers, the second-highest telecast in the network’s history...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/01/fox-news-preliminary-ratings-218401
FNB debate this month. All other debates scored higher with Trump.
FNC stomped on their crank with golf shoes.
12 million is half of the 24 million they had the last time
Easy. A lot of Trump supporters watched to see the train wreck of Megan Kelly vs. the other candidates. Including me.
It’s telling how most media and politicians are against Trump, but the people support him anyway. That’s a good thing that people are thinking for themselves, because those two entities have given us the downfall of our country.
You act as if you actually know something about Trump, while evincing no sign at all of having any understanding of Trump’s overall political positions in the past. Like so many who are misrepresenting Trump because they hate him, you take specific quotes or points out of context on a limited number of issues and avoid noticing his previous conservative stances.
Let me help educate you about Trump’s past positions that he promoted actively and often enthusiastically and repeatedly [with sources in brackets]. Already by the 1980s he was talking about remedying the trade imbalance and high national debt [full-page ad in NY Times; several interviews, inc. one with Oprah], cracking down on crime, being loudly pro-police and pro-death penalty [another full-page ad in the NY Times; later a full chapter in his book, The America We Deserve], for fighting government wastefulness and ineptitude, and for less regulations on business [The Art of the Deal, esp. Wollman rink story; later revisited in depth in The America We Deserve including a call for lower taxes and a new word, “burons” (a combination of “bureaucrat” and “moron”)].
By 2000, he was also for cracking down hard on terrorism (which he saw as a big growing threat) and calling out the damage that teachers unions and federal centralization were doing to the education system [some of the main focuses in The America We Deserve]. Already in 2000 too, he was talking about the dangers of an open border and he said he was for a ban on partial birth abortion (he changed his mind immediately after the Russert interview Cruz is touting) [once more, The America We Deserve]. By 2011, he was calling for a border wall and deportation of criminals, the repeal of Obamacare, and was for strengthening the military, but using it more judiciously [his book, Time to Get Tough]. In 2013, he said the amnesty bill was a “monstrosity” and would be the death of the Republican Party [multiple tweets and his CPAC speech]. What in the world is your definition of “conservative” if these are the positions of a “far left wing progressive” who doesn’t even have a “history of being somewhat conservative”?
I think when Trump checked out the 2008 coup it woke him up.
I wish normal people would be willing to check out the 2008 coup; maybe they would wake up too.
One of the most important steps in that coup was the threats to the media, including Fox. People who saw Fox not discuss Obama’s eligibility or Muslim leanings (obeying the threat...) figured there must be no “there” there. If they had known that Soros, Axelrod, and Emanuel had threatened the media into silence they would have known there certainly IS a “there” there, or there would have been no need of threats.
This country is going to be sharply divided until the truth gets out, and Fox is one of the biggest hindrances to that happening, because it lulls “conservatives” to sleep.
Trump is willing to expose crap, and the 2008 coup and its aftermath have been nothing but crap.
I like Cruz for actual governance, but I like Trump for exposing the crap. So how do I choose who to vote for? Until the coup of 2008 and the hostage system is exposed, the nation will be too divided to allow good governance. So how do we get out of this?
Thanks for the chronology. I didn’t know those things.
Trump just shot Faux News in the street on 6th Avenue!!!GO.TRUMP.GO!!!
The best comment I have seen yet was at the Dilbert artist blog before the debate when Trump canceled ...
"Trump just fired the Republican party's air traffic controllers."
Nails it on several levels!
An unimpeachable source.
Thanks for your concern.
(These guys aren't even trying anymore...)
Trite. (10)
He is a builder and also he seems to be able to predict the near future weekly. Watch Hillary won't be the nominee - as per Trump.
If you think the vast majority of conservatives are going to pass up this chance to vote for a real American man. Lets see how that works out.
Lets also remember this a guy who has created thousands and thousand of jobs currently has around 25,000 employees.
This guy is a maker
The rest are social engineering takers
But yeah all of us Trump people are stupid for supporting a real man over a bunch of phony politicians
I"m going to turn my brain off now
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