{"id":754,"date":"2010-12-29T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T17:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:07:25","slug":"using-tv-shows-to-determine-political-leaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/using-tv-shows-to-determine-political-leaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Using TV Shows to Determine Political Leaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a study was released last month about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2010\/11\/10\/republicans-love-modern-family-democrats-favor-dexter-new\/\">TV shows that Democrats and Republicans find most popular<\/a>. So I took a look at the top 15 shows on both sides and checked what I watch on the list.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_755\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/experian-simmons-rightlefttv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-755\" class=\"size-full wp-image-755 \" title=\"Experian Simmons Republican\/Democrat Popular TV Shows\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/experian-simmons-rightlefttv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/experian-simmons-rightlefttv.jpg 636w, http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/experian-simmons-rightlefttv-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Experian Simmons Republican\/Democrat Popular TV Shows<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The final tally:<\/p>\n<p>Popular Republican Shows:<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">3. Modern Family<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">4. V<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">6. The Big Bang Theory<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">10. Desperate Housewives<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">12. Lie to Me<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">15. Two and a Half Men<\/div>\n<p>Popular Democrat Shows:<\/p>\n<p>2. Mad Men<br \/>\n3. Dexter<br \/>\n5. 90210<br \/>\n6. Brothers &amp; Sisters<br \/>\n8. 30 Rock<br \/>\n9. The Good Wife<br \/>\n10. Damages<br \/>\n13. Friday Night Lights<br \/>\n14. Parks and Recreation<br \/>\n15. Breaking Bad<\/p>\n<p>I also stopped watching How I Met Your Mother (#14, Republican) and am on the verge of dumping Community (#11, Democrat).<\/p>\n<p>So does that make me a left-leaning independent? (It would match how I view myself, fiscally conservative, socially liberal.)<\/p>\n<p>Do the shows you watch match your political leanings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a study was released last month about the TV shows that Democrats and Republicans find most popular. So I took a look at the top 15 shows on both sides and checked what I watch on the list. The final tally: Popular Republican Shows: 3. Modern Family 4. V 6. The Big Bang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,11],"tags":[368,370,367,371,369],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","category-tv","tag-democrat","tag-popular","tag-republican","tag-research-study","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}