Well...Yep. You don't have to love them. You DO have to understand they're in 90 million households. https://t.co/UEaaKWf9yD— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 16, 2019
I suspect the number of Obama voters who voted for Trump and regularly watch FoxNews could fit around the other table at that Waffle House. Not to mention the people watching FoxNews because they love Trump are not watching it to see Shep Smith or to have their "hermetic bubble" disrupted.Those people could fit around one table in a Waffle House https://t.co/ztoQfNn9ke— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 16, 2019
More than likely they just object to this use of "their" station and, if they watch a town hall, it confirms their preferred opinions. There's also the rising tide of younger voters (younger than the average Fox News viewer, whose audience diminishes on a daily basis simply by virtue of demographics) who would consider those who go on FauxNews (especially this early in the campaign) to be opportunists, not heroes. How big a bounce did Bernie get?The responses to this tweet betray a huge misunderstanding. Fox News presently is a completely curated media silo for Trump. No opposing viewpoint appears. Appearing on its airwaves at the minimum disrupts that hermetic bubble. Get it? https://t.co/rFPSCn4Seh— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 16, 2019
That rising tide is written off by pundits because it is ahistorical. It may be unprecedented, but it shouldn't be ignored. Lots of moving parts this time; not all of them visible to the naked eye.
BTW: the "90 million" number is the number of households with cable (and businesses, probably). A few years ago, I'd have been one of those households. Doesn't mean I ever watched FoxNews. And cable is in sharp decline as young people don't sign up for it.
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