i watched nostalgically. i don t think watching is a political statement. and if so, i m team jackie. hey, everything old is new again. i mean, you know, u2 was out doing the joshua tree on concert. i loved seeing steely dan create asia. i get that some of it is nostalgia. but that is not a complete explanation. i want to remind you to answer the survey question at roseanne s ratings success is more at contributri attributabl politics or nostalgia? coming up next, president trump going to war against amazon. is he wright and is he hurting his call by politicizing this? i ll talk to the former ceo of toys r us. m, so people watching will be like, wow, maybe i ll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com. who glows?
roseanne s ratings success is more attributable to the show s politics or the show s quality? through all the staff chaos, the resignations, indictments, porn star scandals and twhoeets, the president s poll numbers are going up. last month 35% to 42%. it remains steady among ds in the basement at 5%. but for republicans, his approval has risen from 80% to 86% and among independents, a six point rise from 35% to 41%. neal newhouse is partner and co-founder of the premiere republican polling organization, he was lead polster for governor mitt romney in 2012. you re a political polling guy. but i must ask you about television ratings. i want to know if you see a connection between roseanne s success and this new data showing an uptick for the
let s do this. time to see how you responded to the survey question. which is roseanne s rating success more attributable to? survey says, 10,000 come on! come on! how can that be? 10,007 votes, a 50/50 statistical tie. that s unbelievable! all right. i ll leave it up. keep voting. i ll leave it up throughout the course of the weekend. what else do we have in terms of social media reaction? that is too funny. look, it s a divided audience. i love that. i love the fact that it s an audience that is reaching all sides. i mean mine, not hers. so true. you don t have to hate those you disagree with. i m tired of the boycott mentality. i love the real roseanne even though i disagree with her politics. look, chris, my opening kmen taker kbroint commentary point that many of
difficult. you are right, and that is lawrence tribe s position at harvard is to say justice stevens don t do it, because all you are doing is playing into the hands of the nra because this is what they have been telling people we wanted for years and we don t. it is unnecessary and impractic impractical. remember, if you have not yet been for my website, go there immediately and cast a ballot in the poll question of daof the d because i m about to give you the result. roseanne s rating success, which is it more attributable to, the show s politics or the show s quality. jirksz
while roseanne supported candidate trump, her sister jackie is revealed to be a hillary supporter who nevertheless voted for jill stein. that is a real snapshot into america. a world where the all or nothing red state or blue state pore frayed by cable television news is not reality. for many of us, enjoying the company of friends and relatives this weekend our worlds will be much more like roseanne s than the narrative we see in our leaders and their media mouthpieces. this weekend many of us will be a butter knife away from a loved one who sees the world differently. the president said roseanne was all about us and he is correct. but it is not just about that ohio crowd. it is about all of us. i want to know what you think. go to smerconish.com, answer this question.