Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen ('Cept Fox Viewers)
Who are these Fox viewers. OpEdNews gives you the details.
In the first poll of its kind, OpEdNews.com, in the second OpEdNews/Zogby People's poll has learned that except for viewers of right wing news show, Fox News, poll respondents believe that the 2004 presidential election was stolen.
Overall, the poll found that 39% said that the 2004 election was stolen. 54% said it was legitimate. Shortly after the election, the NY Times suggested that a few fringe extremists and bloggers were concerned about the theft of the election.
But let's look at the demographics on this question. Of the people who watch Fox news as their primary sourc of TV news, one half of one percent believe it was stolen and 99% believe it was legitimate. Among people who watched ANY other news source but FOX, more felt the election was stolen than legitimate. The numbers varied dramatically:
Here are the stats by network listed as first choice by respondent and whether the respondent thought the election was stolen or legitimate.Network Stolen LegitimateABC 56% 32%CBS 64% 31%CNN 70% 24%FOX .5% 99%MSNBC 65% 24%NBC 49% 43%Other 56% 28%
The poll asked people which was their favorite source of TV newst. Among the 689 people in the poll who answered this question, 37% watched Fox news, more than any other single network. CNN came in second with 21% with MSNBC third, with 13%. It makes sense for these three 24/7 news networks to be the top in this category, since the others air news for limited parts of the day.
A lot more information on Fox News viewers :
After Fox news, the second choice for news network among Fox viewers is ABC 38% and MSNBC 37%, followed by CNN with 27%, NBC with 19% and CBS with 6%.
74% of it's viewers are married. 15% are single and 10% are divorced, widowed or separated. Whether they are fair and balanced, is up for debate. But they appear to be THE family channel, at least for Republicans. 64% have children. 85% of them come from non-union families. Among churchgoers, half go to church, temple or mosque rarely, never or just holidays. But for Fox News Viewers half go frequently. Among NBC viewers, 67% go most frequently. NBC has the most religious viewers. More born-agains watch NBC; 54% to 46%, and Born Agains are least likely to watch ABC: 95%/5%, MSNBC 78%/22%, CBS 76% to 24% and CNN 65%/35%. More Catholics, Protestants and Born-agains watch Fox news than any other news network.
82% of people who identify themselves as conservative and 80 of those who consider themselves very conservative watch Fox News. Zero liberal or progressives watch Fox News as their first choice, and 42% of moderates chose FOx news as their first choice. The first choice of progressives (very liberal) is Other, assumingly C-Span and the like. The first choice of Liberals is CNN.
Fox news is the favorite of suburban, small city and rural dwellers. CNN is the first choice of large city dwellers.
Among immigrants Fox news is the top favorite.
46% of men and 30% of women watch Fox news.
Less than 2% of Democrats favor Fox news, while it's the favorite for 75% of Republicans and 34% of independents. For Republicans and independents, Fox is the network that is first choice. CNN is viewed as first choice by Democrats, with 38% choosing it.
The OpEdNews.com/Zogby People's Poll, with 42 questions, also found that the PA US Senate Race, with Rick Santorum, is not at all like other polls have reported. While Casey Has a 47-37% lead. He has spent millions of dollars to get it. His opponents Chuck Pennacchio and Alan Sandals are both within similar range, with 45% and 43% with Pennacchio having spent under $100,000 and Sandals having spent under $500,000. Both the current and a previous OpEdNews/Zogby people's poll found, that after respondents were given position information on the candidates, that Casey's lead disappears and he pulls a smaller percentage than either Pennacchio or Sandals.
We are waiting on further crosstab analysis of the data. We believe that we will find that if you pull out Fox viewers, the rest of America has a far different view of America and the Bush Administration
This poll was run May 9th through 10th, in Pennsylvania, by the Zogby organization.
Methodology statement from Zogby: Zogby International conducted interviews of 707 likely voters online. Panelists who have agreed to participate in Zogby polls online were invited to participate in the survey. The online poll ran from 5/9/06 through 5/10/06. The margin of error is +/- 3.8 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups. Slight weights were added to party, age, race, religion, and gender to more accurately reflect the population.
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12 Comments:
Has there EVER been a poll where one side had 99%?
Personally, I'm surprised that even 99 people watch FAUX News. I can't make it any longer than the second or so it takes to switch channels.
Yes old Russian elections at the time of Stalin
Had a 99.98 % winning margin for the Kommunist Party. Since there was only one name on the ballot
I'm amazed...
Even by the fucked-up standards of the freepers and faux watchers, I'm amazed. 99%!?
What's worth noting is that, even so, 39% of the US believes the election was stolen. Really, how far would you have to go to find another "democracy" with that level of confidence? 1990's Iraq? Turkmenistan? Uzbekistan?
Home of the brave new world...
I think people here sometimes underestimate the American voter
Americans are often slow to "get it", but given enough time, they get it, even when the media is not covering the story.
Tonight, we here are in the clear majority, when it comes to this administration and its policies. We are in a majority in spite of overwhelming odds favoring our opponents. That's a comforting thought to hold onto during a time of darkness.
But if gas prices weren't so high, would we be? (I'm not sure we are in the majority, though; we'll see what happens in Nov.) If people are changing their mind based on gas prices, when they weren't swayed to change their mind by the fact that Bush's tax policies hurt everyone but the ultrarich, I have no hope (and I think this is the case). (If gas prices were high because there were high taxes, rather than high profits for oil companies, I'd ecstatic. High gas prices in and of themselves aren't bad; it's what the oil companies are going to buy (politicians) with all their profits that's bad).
Until the masses wake up from their dimwitted slumber
And realize that
1. Tramps may get easy abortions
2. Gay men can kiss each other and marry
3. Mexicans can actually have a productive job.
Then the great mass of THE unwashed, will follow the dictates of DR. ROVE --- vote for Cheney et Al and merrily slink back to their sound sleep in their heated water beds to dream of Jesus and worship with Dr. Falwell, Rev Ralph Reed and John Osteen.
They won't wake up; our (horrendous) education system ensures that.
Might say more about the vix-network than anything else:
A number like 99% makes me think of koolaid and vow-taking and otherwise giving up any pretense of actually using whatever you have in the way of cogitating skills. Zombies is what we have here.
Imagine Fox as your "primary news source"! Imagine openly identifying Fox as your "primary news source"!!
Obviously as we know anyone with any serious interest in knowing what is going on cannot rely these days on even mainstream corporate-corrupted media like ABC/NBC/CBS/NYT/WP, never mind swill-purveyors like Fox. We have to gently break the news to these folks that it is time to re-learn to read and run through books on a regular basis (yike!). On-line time will have to be diverted from chat rooms and porn sites to political/news sites and blogs (present company prime example).
bwhahhhahhaaaaa
that is the funniest thing i've seen in a while. 'fair & balanced' my ass.
You know I would just as soon take a bullet as to listen to Rush or Oreilly. I perfer to call him orally. The other one just the drug addict. I am quite sure that the elcetion was stolen. In fact this is the second election that was stolen. WTF have we done nada. Get real if these clowns get away with this crap then it will continue
As Democrats start thinking about a candidate for the '08 Presidential elections, let's remember this poll and the information it gives us -- and then remember who's cozying up to Rupert Murdoch as we speak: "Hillary, Rupert, and the Culture of Corruption"
The idiot that wrote the atricle Mr Jaekos would like us to read is a former reporter for the Austrailian puke Ruppert. What a name Ruppert, can we just shoot the bastard? OK its open season on Fn republicans and robber barons... LOL
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