Fox Fans Favor Bush 65% to 28% CNN Fans Favor Kerry 63% to 26%

[The Vorlon]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Media%20Partisanship%20June%2017.htm

Fox Fans Favor Bush 65% to 28%

CNN Fans Favor Kerry 63% to 26%
 
National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters June 15-16, 2004

Fox News Channel Audience
 
Bush 65%
Kerry 28%
 
CNN Audience
 
Bush 26%
Kerry 63%

Thursday, June 17, 2004--Among fans of the Fox News Channel, George W. Bush is winning by a landslide--65% to 28%. Those who prefer CNN also prefer Kerry by an almost identical margin (63% to 26%).

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey documents a similar split on the radio dial. Those who listen to National Public Radio prefer Kerry by a 68% to 27% margin. However, those who listen to Christian radio stations on a regular basis prefer Bush, 71% to 23%. This gap mirrors the political divide between those who attend Church regularly and those who don't.

The gaps go deeper than simply the Presidential election. In the race for Congress, Fox fans will vote for GOP candidates by a 56% to 25% margin. The CNN audience will vote Democratic by a 54% to 27% margin.

Given this polarized environment, we are especially pleased with the bi-partisan audience that visits RasmussenReports.com. Forty-three percent (43%) of our visitors are Republicans while 38% are Democrats.

CNBC, while hosting a smaller audience, also has more bi-partisan appeal--47% of their audience will vote for Bush while another 47% express a preference for Kerry.

Rush Limbaugh, however, has an entirely different audience--85% say they'll vote for Bush and 11% for Kerry.

 

[© tweed]

Cool Poll.    No surprises.

[MODU]

Yeah, since you're polling an already known audience.    I could go around here and say "Do you perfer "our company" more than "our competitors?"  I wonder how the results would turn out.  HAHAHHA

[??????????]

And the sun continues to...rise in the east...set in the west.....

[12th Doctor]

This just in... the Smurfs are blue.

[Lunar]

How do they define a fan?

Does it include someone who watches 10 minutes of news a week, 6 minutes CNN and 4 minutes FOX?

[Keystone Phil]

Just for the record, I'm a conservative Republican that supports President Bush 100% and I prefer CNN to Fox News. Some people will find that surprising but it's true.

[Lunar]

Just for the record, I'm a conservative Republican that supports President Bush 100% and I prefer CNN to Fox News. Some people will find that surprising but it's true.

I'm the opposite (liberal Independent) and I watch FOX.  They have prettier pictures.

You have to love how FOX introduces a mainstream story.

MICHAEL JACKSON CASE
DOO DEE DOO DUM DUM DOO DEE DOO
pictures of Michael moving around
DUM DUM DUM DEE DOO
swirling sound

Alright, noooo new updates today on Michael Jackson.  Now for breaking news on the California Wildfires

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES (text all in animated red)
DUM DUM DOO DEE
More ominous music as the camera zooms around a fire graphic.

(both of these examples were mostly made up)

[Keystone Phil]

One reason why I watch CNN over Fox News: Fox seems to cover the more minor news stories instead of breaking news event.

[zachman]

One reason why I watch CNN over Fox News: Fox seems to cover the more minor news stories instead of breaking news event.

I like just the opposite. CNN covers court cases too much, and that is my objection to them.

[King]

CNN likes to talk opinions too much....they talked through most of Reagans funeral and that turned me off....I watch MSNBC now....

[Keystone Phil]

I think they all throw in opinions too much whether it's conservative or liberal.

[opebo]

I guess those of us that watch Bloomberg are.. what?

[Nation]

I guess those of us that watch Bloomberg are.. what?

Un-American!

[Shira]

FOX started few years after CNN. The CNN audience was about 50% 50%. When FOX started, the Conservatives gradually moved to FOX. Consequently, those who have stayed with CNN are more Liberal.

As to NPR, they are balanced in the reporting and in the commentary. Most of their programs are of high quality and directed to well educated and informed people - not exactly the southern religious ignorant ones.

[dazzleman]

I usually watch Fox news, but sometimes watch MSNBC and more rarely CNN.

I have listened to NPR and find it biased to the left.  Those who consider it balanced are usually balanced to the left themselves.

Fox News does have some liberal voices, but it generally leans conservative.  And that's fine with me.  I find it interesting that liberals find it perfectly OK to have any number of media outlets that have a strong liberal bias, yet they can't stop screaming bloody murder over one of the few media outlets that doesn't share their bias.

I now have 2 alternate definitions of "liberal."  The first is that a liberal is a person overly impressed with his own intelligence, and disdainful of the intelligence of those who don't agree with him.  The second is that a liberal is a person who would side with the burglar who sued you because he broke his leg in the process of robbing your house.

[KEmperor]

I guess those of us that watch Bloomberg are.. what?

People who support the current NYC mayor?

[Keystone Phil]

Ha...if that's true there aren't many.

[Shira]

I now have 2 alternate definitions of "liberal."  The first is that a liberal is a person overly impressed with his own intelligence, and disdainful of the intelligence of those who don't agree with him.  The second is that a liberal is a person who would side with the burglar who sued you because he broke his leg in the process of robbing your house.

Have you noticed how Sean Hannity and Bill O'reilly do not allow their opponents to speak?  They are not even trying to listen to them. Secondly, can you come with a concrete example of an NPR bias?

[Shira]

Shira- I agree with you. Both Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly are rude. I think both could let their persuasion carry the day but they don't. They are both intelligent but too egotistical for most people IMHO.

At least Sean is an ignorant, and both are very narrow minded.

[phillies]

It seems to me that the level of division we are seeing is getting a bit drastic and may eventually lead to unpredictable difficulties.

[??????????]

It seems to me that the level of division we are seeing is getting a bit drastic and may eventually lead to unpredictable difficulties.

One can only hope. Maybe this will lead us to getting back to what the constitution intended.

[Trilobyte]

By the way, what are the viewership numbers now? I believe Fox has been ahead for quite some time, but I also heard CNN came back on top after the Columbia tragedy.