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| CNN Followers Wish Romney Had Been Elected |
| 2014-07-29 |
| Americans are so down on President Obama at the moment that, if they could do the 2012 election all over again, they'd overwhelmingly back the former Massachusetts governor's bid. That's just one finding in a brutal CNN poll, released Sunday, which shows Romney topping Obama in a re-election rematch by a whopping nine-point margin, 53 percent to 44 percent. That's an even larger spread than CNN found in November, when a survey had Romney winning a redo 49 percent to 45 percent. |
| Posted by:Thineng Angailet7166 |
| #26 AOL/TimeWarner bought them IIRC |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-29 19:26 |
| #25 It seems Ted Turner sold CNN a few years ago, which would explain why they've struggled differently since he left. But this still is the company that under him reported as Saddam Hussein's people ordered in order to maintain access through the invasion. Does anyone watch them except in airports? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-07-29 19:22 |
| #24 Too bad they can't just report the news. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-07-29 19:04 |
| #23 CNN follows the popular tide, it always has. Now that Obumble is on the way out CNN will be critical until another popular politician comes along to follow blindly and with leg tingles. They follow the advertising dollar, that's all. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-07-29 18:50 |
| #22 I understood CNN talked about moving to the center and then went full left again not long afterwards. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-07-29 18:05 |
| #21 Lived through the Mitt time in Mass. The one thing I was hoping for is that he is very flexible depending on which wheel squeaks loudest. Conservatives and Tea Partiers could have kept him from the really bad extremes. He has some good principles, just gets carried away with do-gooderism; need to get that reined in. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-07-29 17:33 |
| #20 CNN used to be far left in NPR/CNN territory but it is my perception that they are rapidly moving to center, possibly even center right to gain audience. They can't take audience from ABCCBSNBC but they can take audience from Fox. You would not see this on MSNBC or the old CNN. The times they are a changin. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2014-07-29 16:56 |
| #19 JFM: I would say CNN/NPR/MSNBC are far left in all aspects. NBC/ABC/CBS center left regarding the news they choose to report (or not) and to the left regarding editorial content. Fox is center right regarding the news they choose to report and a mix that leans between the center (depending upon the issue and the pundit) and far right when it comes to editorial content. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-07-29 15:05 |
| #18 Iblis. You say that we are generation or two away from danger. Well I have children and Obama has made the world a far more dangerous place for them so forgive me if I think there are things maore important than if Romeny would have or would have nopt implemented something similar to Obamacare. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-07-29 14:50 |
| #17 CNN is more left than the big three but right of MSNBC. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2014-07-29 12:33 |
| #16 Another way of looking at it is to follow the money. NPR is protected by the Donks in Congress, so they don't feel the need to play any games. ABC, NBC, CBS are all protected by the overall financing of the network and their news division is basically 'safe harbored'. CNN is a discrete entity that must sell itself and has watched its view numbers plunging and along with it its revenue to justify its existence, particularly when bean counters have to eventually face economic downsizing (cause the DNC and WH press office don't intend to pay for it particularly when they have backups in the other venues). It is not economically protected as the others are. It needs to seek an audience. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-29 12:30 |
| #15 Procupius. The reason I want to know is because if CNN is between Fox and the NBC-CBS-ABC trio then it is no big deal but if it is left npot merely of them but left of NPR then if its followers are wishing they had voted Romney it means a monkey running against the Donks will be elected hands down in 2016. It will also have consequences on the midterm elections and on the harm Obama can do during its last two years. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-07-29 12:02 |
| #14 OK. I liked Perry better. But Right about now Mitt Romney sounds pretty darn good. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-07-29 11:40 |
| #13 Where's Trotsky among the pack of Stalin, Lenin and Beria? I think at a certain point, the distinction become meaningless. We're dealing in shades not separations. It's like a sunspot appears darker than the area around it on the surface, but if placed against a black sky, would appear as bright as any star. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-29 11:34 |
| #12 JFM: We are still a generation or two away from any existential threat. Politicians who focus on banning light bulbs will just get us there faster. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-07-29 11:12 |
| #11 Ok I should not have put Fox in the mix. So where is CNN? Left of ABC-CBS-NBC? Right of them? Midle of the pack? |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-07-29 11:02 |
| #10 Iblis. Had Mitt Romney been elected then pêople who dream of larger, much bloodier 9/11s, evenn nuclear ones, would be far less powerful than they are. People tend to not care about Foreign Policy and Defence (BTW cvount the number of programs that have been frozen by Obama) but in fact they are far more important than any other. There a matter of life and death. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-07-29 11:01 |
| #9 Mitt would have been better than Champ, but he also would have been worse. If Mitt had won we'd have banned assault rifles, we'd still be spending at more or less than same rate and taxes would be going up. We'd also still have ObamaCare, albeit with several amendments in place trying to "fix" it. In 2007 Republicans had the Senate and White House and a working majority on the Supreme Court. What did we do? We banned light bulbs. A Republican even co-sponsored the legislation in the Democrat controlled House. Moral of this story is that we were electing the ***wrong*** Republicans. Mitt is also the wrong sort of Republican. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-07-29 10:40 |
| #8 W.R.Hammonds, American Politics Guide, ranks the following Pubs by prospects (first 11). You might disagree with the ordering: Pence, Paul, Bush, Ryan, Rubio, Santorum, Romney, Cruz, Walker, Perry, Christie. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-29 10:12 |
| #7 CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS are fairly far left of FOX. A newcomer to the mix is OAN (One America News). OAN is relatively new, commercial free, reports the news without much spin. Their commentary tends to be conservative. The Washington Times is behind OAN. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-29 09:37 |
| #6 How far left is CNN relatively to Fox-CBS-ABC-NBC? I would like to get an idea of the disenchantment of the suc..ers, err, the people who voted for him. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-07-29 09:24 |
| #5 Notice that none seem concern they were fed BS (both in commission and omission) by their media sources. No ability to connect the dots. Useful idiots indeed. The Permanent Party Propaganda Machine is worth "nine-point margin". Remember a 'Free Press' is about the free flow of information, not about the institution culturally referred to as the 'press'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-29 08:24 |
| #4 They're upset mostly because they don't have any reason to complain. Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is you get what you thought you wanted. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-29 07:33 |
| #3 "Firewall money" is an excellent term. The "firewall" could be a lot of things. The so-called legacy of Obama's presidency. Money for Hillary and a de facto third Obama term. Control of the Senate. In the end, though, the "firewall" is money to bribe the publicly funded to stay on the Dem plantation. Break the back of that beast and the rest of the beast collapses. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-07-29 05:15 |
| #2 You'll have your bloody chance to vote for Mitt again you feckless, liberal bastards, but you'll have to endure the pain of your actions for a bit longer. Note: The regime's PR firm is capitalizing on the idiotic impeachment rumor to raise additional firewall money. Never let a good crisis go to waste as they say. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-29 01:44 |
| #1 Elections count you fucking retards. Make sure you don't make another idiot mistake this November. Otherwise you will not enjoy the consequences. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-07-29 00:59 |