It may be 88 - 7 by the Nielsen recording standards, but in general they probably reach a much wider audience than the Republican partisans that would normally choose to watch it:

I don't know why, and maybe this is just confirmation bias, but it sure does seem like almost every time that I walk into a restaurant and there's a television showing the news, it's Fox News that it's tuned to...

but it sure does seem like almost every time that I walk into a restaurant and there's a television showing the news, it's Fox News that it's tuned to...

maybe Murdoch is paying them to tune to Faux Noise, if so, it would be buried in their 10Q statement somewhere

   That's ridiculously partisan.  I don't think I would have guessed it would be so partisan.  No credibility at all left.

Matt was right on CSpan.

The 7% of Democrats , I'm almost certain , are Connecticut Lieberman supporters.

why anyone would want to have a Democratic Primary debate on Fox News considering that no Democrats are watching.  Nevada Democratic Party, CBC, ...?

A thought occured to me reading this.  Would this even be out or studied before the progressive blogs became a big and important voice and an outlet for our voices, in politics the past few years?

...straight to the corporations.
A classic piece of video art by artist Richard Serra:

Television Delivers People

Corporatization of the media was a problem, even back in 1973.

are almost certainly watching to keep an eye on what Fox is up to. That's the only reason why I used to watch it.

It's no different when you're out doorknocking. If the next house has Bush and J.D. Hayworth yard signs out front, I'll mark it down as a 4/5 on the sheet and skip it. I don't have unlimited resources (time) and there's little return on the investment possible, even if there might be say a Democratic-leaning kid trapped in the house. On the other hand, if I want to reach partisan GOPers with my message, ,no better outlet than Fox. No different than trying to get a piece in Pravda to reach the Communist Party "nomenclatura" in the 70's. Not sure of the party line? - pick up Pravda and turn on Fox and you're home free of any intellectual thought.

The two data points of Fox viewers (elderly viewers and monolithic partisanship) go together. As people age, they don't get more conservative or liberal, but they become much more rigid in their beliefs. So, the people who watch Fox News, being older and overwhelmingly conservative, are there to get their beliefs validated and to see news that conforms to their world view.

What's important about that is this: these folks can't be persuaded. They are not a group that's open to new perspectives. There is no upside to going on Fox. Well, maybe a very, VERY few of them can be, but as a statistical situation, it's just not likely at all.

Ronald Democrats...the most conservative democrats alive (mostly from the coasts) who aren't stupid enough to vote for Bush.

Chris Murphy for Lieberman's seat in 2012 if Dodd runs for re-election in 2010. However, I'm hoping that Dodd retires from the senate or takes a posh D.C job.

Connecticut needs two new senators with ones who have new vision and ideas.

I don't think there was ever a segment of the party that would deny Fox news was basically GOP tv that was of any consequential size.

You're conflating.

Voting for Bush doesn't mean Republican.

Another recent poll showed about 23% of viewers were Democrats and 22% Independents.

Sure, Fox may have persuaded these people to vote for Bush.  But if someone could have gotten some actual fair and balanced coverage on the network, many of them probably would have voted differently.

The funny thing is that I bet if you polled the readers of progressive blogs you'd have a similar partisan breakdown.  I wouldn't be surprised if 2-5% of dailykos readers were low-information voters who voted for Bush, then started following politics and turned toward the blogosphere (my brother is one of these people).  So you'd end up with similar partisan breakdowns of consumers of Fox as on websites dedicated to furthering the Democratic Party.