Monday, June 1, 2026

Fox News Concedes Obama Winning in Swing States as MSNBC Makes Ratings Inroads

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Fox News must be having a stroke. They’re actually reporting this afternoon that President Obama is polling better in the swing states than their candidate, Mitt Romney. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/19/obama-has-edge-over-romney-in-three-battleground-states/#ixzz2719gIO00 Talk about a cold day in hell. Add this story to the news that on Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow bested Fox News’s Bill Reilly in the key demo ratings, and you can officially say that weird things are happening– pigs are flying.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/19/cable-news-ratings-for-tuesday-september-18-2012/149221/

In the Fox News story out this afternoon, it’s conceded that more voters trust Obama over Romney to fix the economy in Ohio, Virgina, and Michigan. Fox reports that people aren’t happy with the way things are now, but don’t think Romney can make significant changes.

Meantime, all the MSNBC shows are making headway suddenly against Fox News. It could be that Romney’s series of unfortunate incidents have caused a lot of trouble for him and for the conservatively pitched network. Stay tuned…

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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