Are we seeing?

Editors note: Thanks for your notes and messages on the storm. We decided not to chase it. Trip postponed to a later date!

Are We Seeing?

Are we seeing the making of a president? The growth and maturation in the job of Donald Trump? It’s way too early but since his second visit to Houston we have seen a difference.

On that trip he was with the people, and seemed to interact with more ease. Since then he has been limited, measured and careful in his tweets. He hasn’t provided the media fodder to attack him. He provided clear leadership in the hurricane situations in Texas and Florida. He has been more careful in his words on N. Korea and other volatile situations. He diffused the DACA decision with his comments. Did you notice how the protests eased up after a day? Then he showed the Republican leadership team he was going to make deals and left them hanging as he dealt with the Democrats.

Did you notice that the MSM had trouble attacking him the past week? Now they had the storms to cover, but that hadn’t stopped them the first seven months of his presidency. Let’s monitor this, but it just might be a change and it would be so welcome.

Did the public notice? Too soon to tell, but we see a lessening as the days passed on the anti Trump stuff in social media too. Now that will never go away, as some will never see any good and others are not bright enough until someone tells them. Remember his popularity as reported in the MSM was in the 30’s. Let’s track that if he continues down this path.

Some News:

Remember the voter fraud issue that Donald Trump raised? Well not to the numbers he said, but an interesting development yesterday in NH that you probably didn’t hear.
The Speaker of the New Hampshire House announced Thursday that 6,540 people voted using out-of-state licenses in New Hampshire on Election Day.
Since then the vast majority have neither obtained an in-state license nor registered a motor vehicle.
Here are the numbers:
As of Aug. 30, 2014, about 15 percent had been issued N.H. license.
Of the remaining 5,526, only 3.3 percent had registered a motor vehicle.
Over 80 percent, 5,313, who used non-N.H. driver’s license to vote, had neither a state licenses nor had registered a motor vehicle.

Now consider this:
Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in News Hampshire by 2,736 votes.
Sen. Maggie Hassan defeated Republican Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes.

Consider that in light of Obamacare losing repeal by one vote.

When Life Is Not Life:

One of the liberal arguments against the death penalty is that life in prison is a harsher penalty. Except that a life sentence is not a penalty that they uphold. The latest example is Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers. She was granted parole by a California state board this week. (The Gov. can step in and not approve).

Van Houten, was 19 when she killed for Manson in two especially savage Los Angeles crimes in 1969 including a husband and wife and a pregnant Sharon Tate.

So Van Houten may get out, but Tate and the other victims are still dead, and the baby denied a chance at life.

The Ratings:

Here’s Tuesday and Wednesday numbers as a cable recap for the week of Aug 28.

Total Viewers TUESDAY  — FOX WINS DAY (BY 450K) AND NIGHT (225K)

• Total day: FNC: 1.737 | CNN: 917 | MSNBC: 1.282 | HLN: 229
• Primetime: FNC: 2.536 | CNN: 1.115 | MSNBC: 2.333 | HLN: 259

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Cavuto: 1.566	Specialists: 1.599	Baier: 2.133	MacCallum: 2.008	Carlson: 2.556	Five: 2.442	Hannity: 2.608	Carlson: 1.536
CNN	Tapper: 1.112	Blitzer: 1.040	Blitzer: 996	Burnett: 1.038	Cooper: 1.205	Cooper: 1.043	Lemon: 1.092	Lemon: 1.029
MSNBC	Wallace: 1.118	MTPDaily: 1.323	Melber: 1.383	Matthews: 1.879	Hayes: 1.946	Maddow: 2.744	O’Donnell: 2.304	Wlms: 1.485
HLN	MichaeLA: 134	Files: 96	Files: 165	S.E.Cupp: 102	Banfield: 175	Files: 267	Files: 336	Files: 387

Total Viewers WEDNESDAY. FOX WINS DAY (+550K) AND NIGHT (+420K)

• Total day: FNC: 1.832 | CNN: 1125 | MSNBC: 1.286 | HLN: 235
• Primetime: FNC: 2.868 | CNN: 1.818 | MSNBC: 2.440 | HLN: 271

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Cavuto: 1.893	Specialists: 1.864	Baier: 2.234	MacCallum: 2.008	Carlson: 2.991	Five: 2.934	Hannity: 2.678	Carlson: 1.501
CNN	Tapper: 1.249	Blitzer: 1.253	Blitzer: 1.194	Burnett: 1.486	Cooper: 1.752	Cooper: 1.891	Lemon: 1.804	Cooper: 1.326
MSNBC	Wallace: 1.216	MTPDaily: 1.358	Melber: 1.243	Matthews: 1.581	Hayes: 1.834	Maddow: 3.026	O’Donnell: 2.442	Wlms: 1.570
HLN	MichaeLA: 127	Files: 139	Files: 162	S.E.Cupp: 95	Banfield: 220	Files: 274	Files: 320	Files: 402

THE WEEK OF AUGUST 28TH RECAP:

Per Nielsen data, Fox News finished the week of August 28th as the most-watched basic cable network in total day for the 35th consecutive week, posting +12 percent year-over-year total audience growth in the process.

FNC was also the No. 1 basic cable network in total prime time viewers for the 15th straight week, though it posted -1 percent audience loss versus the same week last year (Aug. 29, 2016).