This has been around for awhile, but it is nice...

Pew conducted a survey last spring showing that the Fox News Chanel had almost as many viewers who identified themselves as Democrats (33%) those who said they were Republicans (39%) and that CNN had a larger percentage of Democrats (51%) than MSNBC (45%).

A more recent survey asked viewers to identify their "main source" of news and 56% of the Fox viewers were either Democrats or independents. Asking independents if they "leaned" toward one party or another increased the "Republican" Fox viewers to 63%, equal to the number of "Democratic" CNN viewers.

This still leaves 37% of the Fox viewers unsympathetic to the Republican party, a mirror image of those loyal to CNN. Perhaps we should pause before embracing stereotypes.

Pew article HERE

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The Militant Moderate Oct 31, 2009, 8:24pm EDT

Personally, my network loyalty is to CNN.
The ONLY thing I watch on Fox is Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

I also subscribe to Time, Newsweek, The Economist and the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Online I view Drudge as well as Huffington, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post, Greg Mankiw's and Robert Reich's blogs and (of course) Uncle Jay Explains the News

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John S. Oct 31, 2009, 9:33pm EDT

Looking at this it appears that the big difference is that partisan republicans go overwhelmingly to Fox, while Democrats and Independents are more likely to view any source.

I watch Fox, but I know not to take any of their news seriously. I have other sources for real news.

Richard P. Oct 31, 2009, 10:36pm EDT

Right on John S. I watch Faux News I need their far and balance propoganda and the comedy too as I watch all the news at primetime. I got my beton MSNBC, flip that channel and watch Bill Marher, flip again and watch Jon Stewart, back to Keith Oberman to get the worst persons in world and back to see what Bill'O got say about G.E. and his newest book release and of course his poll rating. Then to the CNN and listen to Lou Dobbs. There is so much good slam bang comedy on these days, I just can't get enough of it.

The Militant Moderate Nov 1, 2009, 11:10am EST

John,
There is a lot of truth to what you say, largely because the Republican party has, largely, purged all but the hard core ideologues. Much to the chagrin of their left wing, the Democrats still have the blue dogs and some independent thinkers like Claire McCaskill.

My point is that, while certainly not my cup of tea, Fox still has a substantial portion of it's audience that are not ditto-heads.

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Sam C. Nov 1, 2009, 1:32am EST

Exactly. Precisely. Obama and his team read the polls too. So when Obama went after FOX it was a calculated offensive tactic to further fragment and divide the GOP by forcing the GOP to either defend or deny the talking heads. The extremists can't win. Everybody but them knows it. The more radical the GOP the less likely they are to win.

Tim Nelson Nov 1, 2009, 11:01am EST

Left, and right wing, positions are doomed.

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Rude D. Nov 1, 2009, 1:12pm EST

I knew something was up, if Faux Noise channel as well as Limpaugh, have such a huge audience, why don't they make a bigger splash on the elections.

I think if their LIES were more believable,instead of being an insult to the intelligence of the audience, it would do more damage.

I believe they are really damaging themselves in the "fair and Balance" nonsense.

I know I watch ALL the news orgs I can.

Tim Nelson Nov 1, 2009, 6:57pm EST

Because the big tent Republican party imploded. With no one keep the tent together, many stayed home.

Independents seldom have a candidate, but we always vote. Strange, but true.

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Texas Rocks Nov 1, 2009, 5:29pm EST

Fox Rocks... Although I sometimes watch CNN for laughs.

Rudi... if you dont like it, dont watch it. Be the smaller 30% that dont...lol.
~M

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Charles Temm JR Nov 4, 2009, 5:35pm EST

I do think the jihad against Fox by the Administration and some liberals has increased its viewing simply because of curiosity.

I've watched all of the various news networks and while some are pretty bad, none of them are good enough to take as your sole source of news.

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This has been around for awhile, but it is nice to read the source

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