my apologies..you are right about the contenets of your posts...however, have you ever really loooked at his sources???..they are not exactly topnotch..they are often people's blogs and crazy guys on youtube.
Your sources aren't "topnotch", either. All of them are left-winged editorials, which I knew from the start. And, it appears that the other two just parroted what was written in Salon.
Notice that they don't cite the actual numbers to show this alleged drop by 50% on Hannity's end.
"Why Hannity Lost Half Of His Viewers And Rachel Maddow Didn't"? PLEASE!!! That is a bald-faced lie, undoubtedly perpetrated to advance the wishful thinking that Obama's re-election spells the end for Fox News as cable news' top dog.
Anyone who follows the ratings knows that Hannity normally DOES NOT amass 3.6 million viewers. His numbers usually range between 1.7 to 2 million a night. In other words, after the election, things simply returned to normal.
Furthermore, Hannity has NEVER advanced a narrative that Romney would win in a landslide. How many times did Hannity go on the show and say Republicans need to act like it's the 4th quarter and they're down two TDs? How many times did Hannity plea with voters to show up (which, at least as the GOP base goes, they didn't; hence Obama won)?
Yes, he had Rove and Morris, who made such pics. He also had Pat Caddel, who said Romney ran the worst campaign he'd ever seen. He had Scott Rasmussen who said it'd be close and that Romney could possibly win the popular vote but lose the election.
He had Larry Sabato, who picked Obama to win at least 290 EC votes. And, that's the short list.
The guy who wrote the IBT article acts as if 3.6 million is standard fare for Hannity. Heck, even O'Reilly doesn't hit that mark on a regular basis. And, he's been the top cable news guy for 12 years.