Is Oprah Losing Favor for Supporting Obama
posted in Cultural, youtube | | EMail This Post | View blog reactions | Print This PostThe answer I’m sure is yes, but I’m sure it’s not the only reason. For one, you can’t be on top forever, and as is pointed out in the video there are going to be dips in popularity from time to.
Nacy Giles, the woman on the right in the above video, totally miss the whole point on the Obama thing, though. I assume she is not familiar with voiting patterns in this election.
She keeps making the point that Ellen is showing obvious support for Clinton and her favorability isn’t slidding, as some kind of proof that supporting a candidate must not be the reason. Actually, that proves the point that Oprah is losing favorability because of her vocal support of Obama.
The majority of both Oprah and Ellens audiences are middle aged to older white women. Hillary Clinton’s strongest voting base is middle aged to older white women. So of course a host with this audience would take a hit for supporting Obama; but not take much if any hit for supporting Hillary Clinton amongst Hillary’s base.
In other words, duh!
When Oprah appeared with Maria Shriver and Caroline Kennedy in California more than a month ago she mocked women who she said asked her “Oprah, how could you” — as in how could she vote for a man over a woman, as if genitalia should be the only deteminate with which a woman votes. So clearly this was building, and should be no surprise.
These are the Steinem and Ferraro feminist that I talked about before who think it’s a litmus test of being a loyal woman to vote for Hillary; though they had no such litmus test when the Black woman was running for president.
Also, I don’t think that new age thing helps so much as that is turnoff to a lot of people; but I don’t know why that would be a turn off now, as opposed to when she started doing it years ago; unless people are out there making a point of it at this moment in time.
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