Poll: 78% of GOP Fox News Viewers Say Trump Is Best President Ever

[DonViejo]

A new survey of the network’s watchers reveal the hard core of the Republican Party and how hopeless it is for Democrats to try and court them.

Maxwell Tani
03.21.19 4:05 AM ET

Almost 8 in 10 Republicans who watch Fox News say Donald Trump is the most successful president in history.

That was just one finding of a new poll showing the deep ideological divide between Fox News viewers and everyone else. The poll results were provided to The Daily Beast by Navigator, a project launched by Democratic groups Global Strategy Group and GBA strategies. They surveyed more than 1,000 registered voters online with the goal of examining the differences in views between Fox News viewers and non-Fox viewers.

It comes after Democratic strategists have debated whether candidates and officeholders should appear on Trump’s favorite cable news channel to win over its regular viewers. Candidates like Sen. Amy Klobuchar have deliberately made efforts to speak to Fox News viewers, and the Democratic National Committee briefly entertained the idea of hosting a debate on Fox News before deciding against it.

But Thursday’s survey shows why many in the party have largely written off the network’s viewers as a lost cause.

The survey’s authors argue that the network presents an “alternate reality” in American politics, and plays an “outsized role in the way many experience and form opinions on the most important issues facing the country.”

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[Historic NY]

1. Its called brainwashing.....

their idol has to have praise. They thought he was a successful businessman he's not.

[dlk]

2. Yet, Hillary Caught Enormous Flak for Calling Them Deplorable

We need to be honest about who some Americans really are.

[MH1]

8. It was a terrible political move.

Whether there was some truth to it, is irrelevant.

Also keep in mind that these people are the product of genetics and upbringing. You can't just point at someone and tell them to "be a better person" and expect them to do things that you think make them a better person.

[Jim_Pridx]

3. Wow!

One can only think that there must be a whole lot of idiots in this country.

[leftynyc]

4. Yawwwwwnnnnnn

So less than 1% of Americans are unthinking imbeciles. Didn't we already know that? And yes, it's a complete waste of time and brain power to try and reach them - they're hopeless. Aim for the independents.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I'm surprised it's not over 90%

since he keeps telling them he's the best

[moose65]

6. Fox News is a conservative entertainment network

It is literally what the National Enquirer would look like if it was on TV. The people you see on the network are not journalists - they are actors on a set. The only person that I can even half-way stand is Shep Smith, and sometimes I wonder why he even bothers to go to work!

Democrats cannot win over hardcore Fox viewers. Even if a Dem went on one of the shows and spoke rationally about any topic, the next night the show would joke about the crazy socialist liberal we had on last night, and they would probably find some out-of-context clip to play over and over again.

Who the heck are these "Democratic strategists" who have to debate about this? Since when are Democrats supposed to worry about courting Republican voters? That is a recipe for failure. Are Republicans ever expected to reach out to Democratic voters? Where's all the angst from the other side about appealing to Democrats in California or New York?

Alan Grayson said it best: "You can't beat a Republican by trying to BE one!"

[rainin]

7. The power of propaganda.

Fox viewers are getting a daily diet of positively glowing reports of this embattled president who left a successful business life to commit his life to public service.

He is praised by his followers and that is ALL they hear.

The headline should read "IN THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF FOX WORLD, TRUMP IS BELOVED"

I live with a Fox viewer. I ask often, did you hear.....(whatever the shocking behavior was that day). She has no idea. But, she does hear about an immigrant who killed a white girl, etc.

We underestimated the destructiveness of right wing propaganda.

[Chipper Chat]

10. I remember seeing a crawler on there that read:

"Another Obama scandal uncovered today."
I just rolled my eyes and wept.

[rainin]

12. My mom missed the greatest President of my lifetime, possibly hers as well.

She'll "concede he was a good speaker". Incredibly sad.

I have said many times, I wish Michelle Obama would run. She could win and be great in her own right.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. In 2 F'n Years!

What idiots!
Takes over a prospering economy, slowly winding down wars, low unemployment, and these drones think in 2 years that he's the best ever?!?!?
And wait; I thought they wanted to make america great AGAIN. Well if it was great before, somebody gets the credit, and they're still wearing those stupid hats, then we're not "great" again, yet.
So they trapped themselves with their own idiotic rhetoric!

[beachbum bob]

11. luckily foxnews viewers are small minority and the distance between the extremist of the right

and the moderates on the right is ever growing.

Lets not forget what happened in kansas in2018

[Gothmog]

13. fox news viewers are all idiots

[moondust]

14. Jews will not replace them.

Somewhere in a pitch black, stinking corner of Hell...

...Goebbels is giggling, awaiting Rupert's arrival.

[gratuitous]

15. Ask them again in, oh, 3 years

It will be "Donald Who?" the same way it's now "Dubya Who?" with these people.

[Generic Other]

16. So only 22% of GOP

can think of a single Republican president better than Trump? Really? Good to know how little you offer as a party.

[spanone]

17. well, that's how you train people. repeat over and over and over and over....

[Vinca]

18. Must be a whole lot of people who need AA in this country.

[JDC]

19. And 100% of Fox News viewers are dumbfucks.

[davsand]

20. Almost 8 in 10 Republicans who watch Fox News can't walk and chew gum.

Film at 11.


Asshats are lucky when they remember to come in out of the rain.



Laura