Reese Schonfeld: Fogies For McCain!

Once again, it is time for a look at Presidential preferences based on the number and demographics of viewers watching the 2008 political campaign through the eyes of the cable networks. Once again I'm assuming that Fox viewers are Republicans, and the people who watch CNN and MSNBC are Democrats. Obviously, some Democrats watch Fox, some Republicans watch CNN and/or MSNBC, but, based on the assumption that these numbers tend to even out, here's what happened the first week of October. In primetime, Fox averaged 3,824,000 viewers. CNN and MSNBC between them averaged 3,999,000 viewers--that's Obama ahead by 2.2%. In total day, Fox averaged 1,653,000 viewers. CNN and MSNBC combined for 1,739,000 viewers, a difference of about 80,000 viewers, again about 2%. But the demographics show that Obama is far ahead in viewers under 55.... [read full story]