Bernie Sanders Is More Popular With Fox News Viewers Than MSNBC

[thesquanderer]

22. But Sanders Fox% is still not nearly as high as Biden's. So what does that mean?

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I can't figure out whether you think having this group (Fox viewers who indicated they might vote in the Dem primary) support a candidate is a good thing or a bad thing. It sounds like you find something undesirable about Sanders doing okay with this group, yet Biden has almost twice as much support from this group as Sanders does. Good thing? Bad thing?

Really, Biden's support is about the same from FOX/CNN/MSNBC viewers (42%, 43%, 44%)... I'd say the story is that Warren, Buttigieg, and Harris have very little support from Fox viewers compared to other outlets, and that Sanders seems to be the beneficiary of that. His support is coming at their expense, not Biden's. Biden is still their overwhelming favorite, though.

ETA: It could just be name recognition, i.e. CNN/MSNBC viewers are much more familiar with Warren, Buttigieg, and Harris than Fox viewers are. So Fox Dem primary voters who aren't Biden fans look to the more well-known Sanders, whereas MSNBC non-Biden voters, more familiar with the Dem field, tend to split their preferences among more candidates.