Us Weekly is reporting that ABC will not be renewing the contract of Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the token Republican on The View since 2003. More surprising than her dismissal, however, is the reason an unnamed source gave for Hasselbeck’s dismissal: viewers don’t like her conservative voice. Market research has reportedly revealed that she is not appealing or popular to viewers anymore (if she ever was).
“The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right wing,” the insider told Us Weekly. “People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed.”
However, when called by Us, a rep from The View said in a statement:
“Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a valued member of The View and has a long term contract.”
Reports consistently say she is out, but I suppose we have to wait for the official announcement from ABC.
From November 28 – December 3, 2012, Quinnipiac University polled 1,949 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 2.2 percentage points. Live interviews were conducted via land lines and cell phones. The results give some startling evidence that we are on a steady path to becoming more liberal as a collective. From the study:
1) Voters favor the legalization of marijuana 51 – 44 percent with a substantial gender and age gap.
- Men support legalization 59 – 36 percent
- Women are opposed 52 – 44 percent
- 50 percent of white voters back legislation
- 57 percent of black voters back legalization
- Voters 18 to 29 years old support legalization 67 – 29 percent
- Voters over age 65 are opposed 56 – 35 percent
- Voters 30 to 44 years old support legalization 58 – 39 percent
- Voters 45 to 64 years old are divided 48 – 47 percent
IMO the republican party has done more to change the country's dynamic then anything before, their extreme attempts at everything, their audacity of arrogance, misleads and misinformation, and brazen defense of the rich and not those they took the oath to protect, a fireable offense, if you owned a business wold you keep around an employee that constantly takes vacations, has done nothing on a promise to put jobs first, and most egregious have not done their job for 4 years outside interest or overthrow of the gov't?
7) Hurricane Sandy: 53 – 37 percent of voters believe that climate change did not cause the storm, but broken down, the numbers are more telling:Breakdown of who believes the storm was caused by climate change:
- 14 percent of Republicans
- 37 percent of independent
- 55 percent of Democrats
- Men say no 57 – 35 percent
- Women say no 49 – 39 percent
8) Are people concerned about global warming, though? Yes, but the shift isn’t as big as that on the issues of same-sex marriage and immigration.
- 36% “very concerned”
- 30% were “somewhat concerned”
- 15% were “not too concerned”
- 19% were “not concerned”
you can only ignore facts and scientist until it's too late, then doesn't matter any longer!!
