Archive for May 2nd, 2013

Nums: The cable news race …

May 2, 2013

As reported by Drudge …

I’ve started to tire of O’Reilly, but he still holds a commanding lead.

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Constantly amazed that Stewart & Colbert get classified as news shows … though frequent surveys say that many people do use them as their primary news source.

No surprise that MSNBC continues to get hammered in the ratings.

Kinda sad that that CNN continues to slip … key shows running even with Al Sharpton’s show … ouch.

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Nums: Who approves of Obama more – poor folks or rich folks?

May 2, 2013

Interesting results from the Weekly Economist-YouGov Survey …

Headline: Obama gets a 47% approval rating (below 50%) and a 47% disapproval rating … dead heat.

But … looking at the “top & bottom boxes – strongly approve, strongly disapprove – he underwater by 16 percentage points.

Numbers get more interesting diving into the details:

By region … no surprise that Obama does best in the Northeast – about even on top & bottom boxes …. he does worst in the South – no surprise – and the West (a mix of West Coast liberals and and gun toting open-country folks).

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Things get way more interesting by age and income …

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Nums: The shift to part-timers …

May 2, 2013

In a prior post, we reported that middle income jobs were disappearing … apparently down mixing to lower income jobs.

Here’s more …

The NY Times reports that about 7.6 million Americans working part-time jobs are doing so reluctantly, and would rather have a full-time job … that’s about 3 million more than there were when the recession began at the end of 2007.

Most of the part-time jobs are in retail and food service … where companies are throttling full-time employment in advance of ObamaCare penalties.

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