Hannity's TV ratings plummet after election

Maybe it was his endless shilling for Mitt Romney, a candidate that many conservatives never really admired. Maybe it was his flip-flop within hours of Romney’s concession speech in which he disengenuosly called for immigration reform. Maybe it was his assurances to his television audience that President Obama was headed for a resounding defeat.

In any event, Sean Hannity’s TV ratings on Fox News have plummeted by 50 percent since the 2012 election.

Though it could be expected that Hannity’s viewership would drop after Election Day, the biggest political event in the last four years, one that turned out shockingly bad for the GOP, his decline was sharper than other conservative pundits, according to Salon. Fellow Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly saw his viewership drop by about one-third.

While former governor Jennifer Granholm is bailing out of lefty TV – her “War Room” program on Current TV, which has been purchased by Al-Jazeera from Al Gore -- Hannity apparently is hoping to hang onto his spot on right-wing TV.

Among the important demographic of viewers aged 25-54, Hannity’s ratings were even worse. More than half of what is known as the “money demo” that advertisers covet stopped watching.

At the the New York Daily News, pundits are suggesting that Hannity, who basically called the election for Romney after the first presidential debate, has lost credibility among conservatives, particularly the tea party types, as an unabashed Obama basher.