I understand the wave effect. How much, who knows? If Fox has that wave effect, so too do the other networks. Not as much as they have less viewers. Even taking the wave effect into consideration, you still are talking approximately 2.4 million. Basically the same as watch CNN and MSNBC. then there is the other 25 million or so who watch the over the air channel news.
Perhaps I accepted the fact that Fox is right and CNN and MSNBC is left. At least in their nighttime political talk shows. I pretty much give them equal influence. I'll start viewing watching Fox, when a commercial comes on switch to CNN. When a commercial comes on CNN, I go back to Fox. if both Fox and CNN has commercials at the same time, then I go to MSNBC. All three having commercials, then it is to ESPN. I only watch for around 30 minutes during the day and stay completely away from their talk shows. Way too many people think those nighttime political talk shows are news or reporting the news when they are nothing more than political propaganda.
Yes, I too think Hillary lost because of her apathy, her lack of hard work and campaigning. I posted that thought numerous times with figures to back it up. It wasn't Fox that lost that election for her, but Hillary herself. There no way in Hades that she should have lost, but she did. Trump didn't win it in my opinion, Hillary lost it. Apathy is a good word, so too is running an inept campaign.
I also think the Democrats should stop blaming Fox, the Russians, everything else for the loss in 2016 and look at their candidate. A candidate that was just as much disliked by America as a whole as Trump was. Then look at the campaign itself, its lack of energy and lack of work that the candidate put forth vs. the amount Trump did. Then I'd forgot about it and figure out a way to come up with a better candidate for 2020. I'd but that on the back burner though and start now concentrating on the 2018 midterms and congressional candidates to challenge the Republicans incumbents that has greater appeal to the masses to include independents, the non-affiliated.
Stop being 100% anti-Trump and come up with a vision, ideas, possible solutions to our problems, stand for something other than being anti-Trump. That might be the Democrats biggest obstacle. They can't get over Clinton's loss and being 100% anti-Trump without standing for anything else. When asked this question, Do you think the Democratic Party currently stands for something, or just stands against Trump? 52% of all Americans think the Democrats are nothing more than the anti-Trump Party and doesn't stand for anything else, no substance, no core values.
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