Fox News and CNN viewers have staggeringly different opinions on the Mueller report, poll shows

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It's no surprise that networks like CNN and Fox News attract viewers with very different biases, who hold starkly different editorial lines, but a new analysis from The Washington Post shows just how staggering those differences are.

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The Post made an important distinction in its analysis, however. While Republicans still tend to favor Trump's innocence, they did poll at a lower rate when compared to the general category of Fox News viewer, suggesting the news network one chooses to watch is a clearer indication of an individual's support for the president than political affiliation.

HuffPost and YouGov polled a random sample of 1,000 U.S. citizens of voting age selected from YouGov's opt-in Internet panel between April 18 and April 19. The margin of error is 3.3 percent. Read more at The Washington Post.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.