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Related: About this forumHow Fox News fans keep Donald Trump afloat ~ Wash Po (GD 16)
Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump was about five points in a Suffolk University-USA Today poll released Monday. That's about in line with the recent RealClearPolitics polling average, which estimates Clinton's lead at four-and-a-half points in all of the various recent surveys.
Buried in the cross-tabs of the Suffolk-USA Today poll, though, is an interesting bit of data. The pollsters also asked people which news network they trusted the most, which allows us to see how fans of one network versus another view the two major-party candidates for president.
People who trust MSNBC the most were more likely to back Clinton, by a 77-point margin. CNN-watchers were also heavy Clinton backers, by 55 points. Fans of the major traditional networks all preferred Clinton, too, by 35-, 20- and 38-point margins for viewers of ABC, NBC and CBS, respectively.
Viewers of Fox News, as you might expect, were the only group to prefer Trump, and did so by a 71-point margin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/12/how-fox-news-fans-keep-donald-trump-afloat/
Buried in the cross-tabs of the Suffolk-USA Today poll, though, is an interesting bit of data. The pollsters also asked people which news network they trusted the most, which allows us to see how fans of one network versus another view the two major-party candidates for president.
People who trust MSNBC the most were more likely to back Clinton, by a 77-point margin. CNN-watchers were also heavy Clinton backers, by 55 points. Fans of the major traditional networks all preferred Clinton, too, by 35-, 20- and 38-point margins for viewers of ABC, NBC and CBS, respectively.
Viewers of Fox News, as you might expect, were the only group to prefer Trump, and did so by a 71-point margin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/12/how-fox-news-fans-keep-donald-trump-afloat/
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How Fox News fans keep Donald Trump afloat ~ Wash Po (GD 16) (Original Post)
Her Sister
Jul 2016
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)1. Wonder why they didn't include the internet as a media source?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)2. Looking at how
FOX is the only outlet that has majority Republican viewership, that paints a perfect picture of how FOX has been able to get them to believe that they are the only non-liberal network while everyone else lies and is out to get them. What's also interesting is how only 18% of HC supporters are MSNBC viewers. Many of us get our news from different sources, and from more than 1 place. MSNBC has been fading in popularity and influence for a few years, and is nowhere close to having the lock on the Left that FOX has on the Right.
timlot
(456 posts)3. Wish CNN would reflect this...
Their wall to wall Trump coverage (even though he trashes them in his speeches) is nauseating.