I Don't Have Cable-

or any other TV programing, actually, but I do remember arguing with some of Fox News' stuff when I did; still, they tended to be open about what biases they had, and seemed to try to be fair, or at very least offer the "other" side if one side was being shown in all other places. So, I'm really not surprised that Fox News is having great ratings, especially compared to CNN. And *really* not surprised to hear the same old "everyone listening to Fox is an angry bigot!" saw. Ooh! Insulting the folks who didn't choose you! That's a SURE way to to get them to watch your station! /sarc

Now, seven months after Barack Obama's victory, CNN's ratings have gone down the drain. From May of last year to May of this year, CNN lost 22% of its total primetime audience. MSNBC was down 2%, while FoxNews was up 24%. In the key advertising demographic (25-54), Fox was up 31%, CNN was down 37% and MSNBC was down 26%. In hard numbers, Fox had 109,000 more viewers than last year while CNN lost 113,000. CNN averaged fewer than 200,000 25-54 viewers in primetime. Even MSNBC averaged more viewers than that.

Might have something to do with this; it's a link to Rasmussen's "Daily Presidential Tracking Poll." It lists the difference between "strongly approve" and "strongly disapprove." Hit zero on the fifth. Last hit double digets at the end of March, excepting the 29th and 31st of May-- shortly after Sotomayor's nomination; I haven't found any other possible good things, unless folks were interested in the Middle East trip, or maybe the initial "cool!" response to the date night. (Before the jobs report, and the sheer price of the date, became public.)