Midterms: FNC’s “Core” Audience Faces Bad News On An Election Night

Tuesday was “a depressing evening” for much of the Fox News audience, but inside the net’s studio, “the mood was upbeat,” Rebecca Dana reveals.

She points out that this week, “for the first time in the five years since Fox overtook CNN, the network’s core conservative viewership faced disappointing news on an election night.”

Brit Hume says that fact “raises a challenge about whether they’ll find any reason to watch. My view of that is, if you do a compelling job, the answer is yes.”

The ratings will come out Wednesday afternoon…

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