Day: August 7, 2008

Best Exit Poll: What TV News Do You Watch?

Trish

FOX is still lying about Obama *

A fascinating new poll shows a very high correlation between which television news channels you watch and who you support for president.

87% of Fox News viewers say they are likely to vote for John McCain

Eighty-seven percent (87%) of Fox News viewers say they are likely to vote for John McCain, while those who watch CNN and MSNBC plan to support Barack Obama in November by more than two to one.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of CNN voters plan to vote for the Democratic candidate versus 26% who intend to go for the Republican. Similarly, MSNBC watchers plan to vote for Obama over McCain 63% to 30%.

Only nine percent of those who watch Fox News say they will vote for Obama…

While McCain is regarded favorably by 88% of Fox News viewers, only 43% of CNN viewers and 38% of those who watch MSNBC agree. But just 14% of Fox viewers have a favorable opinion of Obama, as opposed to 70% of CNN watchers and 72% of those watching MSNBC.

How voters rate the importance of issues is also reflected in the cable news programming they prefer. For 36% of Fox viewers, national security is the most important issue in the campaign, followed by 32% who say economic issues are number one. By contrast, those who watch CNN rate economic issues over national security 56% to 13%, and MSNBC viewers agree 50% to 12%.

No word on how those of us who watch no television news (except ABC’s This Week on Sunday morning) vote but it’s small wonder so few FOX viewers are favorable toward Obama. As NewsHounds pointed out, the broadcaster is still pounding home the lie that Obama is not a Christian.

* At least four presidents — John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and William Howard Taft — were Unitarians. Abraham Lincoln was unaffiliated with any faith, and was not thought to have accepted Christ as divine.

McCain Flipflops on Keeping Tires Inflated, Is Forced to Agree with Obama, NASCAR, AAA And Common Sense That It Does Save Gas

Jon Ponder

What’s truly unbelievable here is not that John McCain has done yet another remarkable 180 on a position he adamantly took just three days ago — or even that he believed making a controversy out of tire inflation would work against Obama when his campaign operatives suggested it.
“And could I mention that Sen. Obama a couple of days ago said that we ought to all inflate our tires, and I don’t disagree with that. The American Automobile Association strongly recommends it.”
– John McCain
What is hard to fathom is how studiously the media has avoided mentioning McCain’s latest about face, which occurred during a conference call with supporters Wednesday night:

“And could I mention that Sen. Obama a couple of days ago said that we ought to all inflate our tires, and I don’t disagree with that. The American Automobile Association strongly recommends it, but I also don’t think that that’s a way to become energy independent.”

Maybe not, but experts agree that properly inflating tires could make a big difference:

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, “every pound per square inch of tire underinflation wastes 4 million gallons of gas daily in the U.S.” Survey information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that 27 percent of the cars on the road have a significantly under-inflated tire…

“[The] production offset is … likely to approach 800,000 barrels per day -– a tidy sum and a worthwhile target for savings, but not equal to [Outer Continental Shelf] output,” [wrote Frank Verrastro, Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).]

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