There is a strong view that the recent election was less in favour of the Republican candidate, but more of a rejection of the Obama leadership and his successor...an electorate sick and tired of the failure of the past eight years under Obama, combined with  hope for a real change from the failed policies of  the Democrats,

As to the MSM, many have been turned off and tuned out in the face of nonstop spin from either Fox or CNN whilst others have stopped viewing the "news", thanks to  Netflix and its competitors.

 So who cares what slant Fox and CNN bring to bear on current events? it will take an in-depth study to come to grips with the declining influence of the main stream tv news in the age of  cable cutting. is it still true that the medium is the message when the medium itself is fragile, fragmented and in steady decline?