Quote from Landis82:
1.) As a previous poster mentioned the NBC News with Brian Williams clobbers any program on Faux News by 2.5 to 1.
2.) The median age of the Faux News viewer is 65... mostly retired people that have nothing better to do but sit at home watching TV.
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/05/05/average-age-of-fox-news-viewer-is-65/
Faux and the GOP better hope for some sort of National Health Care plan to come out of Washington, otherwise a lot of their viewership might not be around for the next election in 2012.
The point about age is very important or at least should be to the GOP being relevant in the future.
I think I read that the faux leader of the GOP aka Rush Limbaugh has an average audience approaching 70.
Demographics show that America is moving away from the white majority that is GOP's core base and that the younger and non white people are going Democratic in a big way.
So, basically, take away grumpy old men and the GOP has no base.
This Gallup poll shows clearly the erosion of support suffered by the Republicans except in the 65+ age group.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/118528/GOP-Losses-Span-Nearly-Demographic-Groups.aspx?CSTS=alert
Pat Buchanan sums it up:
""There's a real demographic problem with the Republican Party," Buchanan said. "It is a heavily white party, quite frankly. And as a share of the electorate, that is diminishing and Hispanics are growing very rapidly, Asians are growing rapidly, and by two-thirds they tend to vote Democratic."
Buchanan told Hall that the party is losing young people as well.
"Young people increasingly are more liberal and more socially moderate, and they move away from the Republican Party," he said. "These things are undeniable, the Republican party ... is in tough shape."
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