Only 9 Pct of Fox viewers support Obama: Survey

Obama Vs McCain: The media race

08 August 2008 @ 02:50 pm EDT

A recent survey showed that only nine percent of Fox News viewers would vote for Democrat Sen. Barack Obama, opposed to 87 percent who plan to vote for Sen. John McCain. Radio listeners prefer McCain, while online newspapers readers are more prone to support Obama, the survey found.


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Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama. (AP Photo)
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In a new national telephone survey done by Rasmussen Reports, 65 percent of CNN voters plan to vote for the Democratic candidate versus 26 percent who intend to go for the Republican. Meanwhile, MSNBC watchers plan to vote for Obama over McCain 63 percent to 30 percent.

The report titled "News You Watch Says a Lot About How You'll Vote" also showed that voters who watched MSNBC, 63 percent plan to vote for Obama, compared to 30 percent for McCain.

While McCain is regarded favorably by 88 percent of Fox News viewers, only 43 percent of CNN viewers and 38 percent of those who watch MSNBC agree.

However, only 48 percent of Fox viewers have a favorable opinion of Obama, as opposed to 70 percent of CNN watchers and 72 percent of those watching MSNBC.

McCain is however, more popular among all viewers who tune into any kind of cable news at least once a week.

On the radio, McCain leads as more than 60 percent who listen at least several times a week plan to vote for the Republican compared to less than a third who say they will vote for Obama. National security also polls as a much stronger concern among those who listen regularly to talk radio than it does to voters overall, the poll noted.

Meanwhile, those who read a print newspaper during the week are fairly evenly divided between the two candidates. With online papers, Obama takes the lead.

An interesting find was that those who go online every day are evenly divided, but over half of those who go online one or more times a week plan to vote for McCain.

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