Sean Hannity Ratings, In a fitting coda to 2012, we’ve learned 
that the ratings for rock-ribbed conservative Sean Hannity cratered 
after Barack Obama won his second term, with viewers tuning out the Fox 
News Channel talk-show host in droves.
According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around
 half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox 
News colleague Bill O’Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify 
himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his 
audience.
So what happened to Hannity?
The going wisdom is
 that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned 
him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that 
the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all 
but promised could never happen.
Before the election, Hannity was
 riding high in the ratings and topped thought leaders on the right, 
like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and talk radio bulldog Mark 
Levin, who predicted Obama would lose in a landslide.
Those voices — and many others like them — all but drove the political coverage on Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs.
But
 as Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic just after the election, 
“Outside the conservative media, the narrative was completely 
different.”
Because in reality, statistics proved the 
presidential race was in fact never even close — despite the lopsided 
picture delivered to faithful viewers by Hannity and those who shared 
his opinions.
Wrote Friedersdorf: “The right-leaning outlets like
 Fox News and Rush Limbaugh’s show are far more intellectually closed 
than CNN or public radio. If you’re a rank-and-file conservative, you’re
 probably ready to acknowledge that ideologically friendly media didn’t 
accurately inform you about Election 2012. Some pundits engaged in 
wishful thinking; others feigned confidence in hopes that it would be a 
self-fulfilling prophecy; still others decided it was smart to keep 
telling right-leaning audiences what they wanted to hear.”
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