Thread by @williamjordann

The latest Navigator Research poll (national RVs) breaks up the population by partisanship and Fox News viewership and some of it is just jaw dropping. Like not surprising but wow. navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/upl…

I realize that was a bit of an oxymoron.

What's most fascinating to me is differences b/w REPUBLICANS who watch Fox regularly few times a month or more) vs those who don't. Splits 50-50.

For ex "Non-Fox News GOP" are more than 2x as likely to believe in man-made climate change, to take something topical. 28%...vs 12%

The study finds that the half of GOP who watch a lot of Fox are essentially unanimous on everything. But diff w/ Non-Fox GOPers shows up the most w/controversial things like the national emergency. There is a *34-point gap* between the 50% of GOP who watch Fox and 50% who don't.

Some stats breaking up GOP based on how much Fox the watch.

A=Fox Viewier
B=Not

Support GOP tax plan
A: 89%
B: 62% (-27)

Agree with natl emergency
A: 84%
B: 50% (-34)

Believe anti-Trump deep state conspiracy
A: 79%
B: 49% (-30)

Want Mueller shut down
A: 78%
B: 60% (-18)

The differences between Republicans who watch Fox News and everyone else in America are vast.

Support for national emergency declaration

Fox-viewing Republicans: 84%
The rest of America: 21%

I expected differences but this is *controlling for partisanship.* And you're getting gaps of ~30 points within Republicans without even talking about ideology, age etc (though these overlap). Just whether or not they watch Fox News semi-regularly.

https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/1108723634065965058

I mean my favorite split though is replaying the Trump quote - "in 2 years, Trump admin has accomplished more than almost any other admin in history"

Dems, indies & GOP who don't watch Fox:

17% agree

Republicans who don't watch Fox

meh 49%

Republicans who watch Fox

78%

One of the stranger effects of the Fox echo chamber is Republicans who watch Fox News are now hearing far more about a Democratic policy - the Green New Deal - than Democrats are (and that's driving up unfavorables overall). Suspect a similar story with 2020 candidates.

This one is good for framing the "so what." On the question of which Republicans are really persuadable, this is a pretty good place to draw the line. And: the Republicans who don't watch Fox are half of Republicans.

https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/1108728018434965505

What's interesting is Republicans who don't watch Fox are still largely conservative - one of the smaller differences was conservative self ID (76% vs 83% for Fox viewers) and they voted Republican downballot in similar numbers (88% vs 95%). But much softer on Trump.

https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1108748937555398656