{"id":396272,"date":"2021-04-07T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=396272"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:58:38","slug":"exclusive-new-daily-wire-poll-shows-woke-politics-could-hurt-mlbs-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-new-daily-wire-poll-shows-woke-politics-could-hurt-mlbs-bottom-line\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: New Daily Wire Poll Shows \u2018Woke Politics\u2019 Could Hurt MLB\u2019s Bottom-Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-new-daily-wire-poll-shows-woke-politics-could-hurt-mlbs-bottom-line%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=396272&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-733.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Major League Baseball and major corporations across the country are having trouble reading the room, according to the findings of a new national poll commissioned by <em>The Daily Wire<\/em> which shows \u201cwoke politics\u201d could hurt the league\u2019s bottom-line and that of pandering corporations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For years, many in the media have argued that the increasing politicization of sports isn\u2019t impacting viewership. Those who have expressed their distaste for teams and players getting involved in politics have been laughed out of the room, told their viewership will not be missed. They are looked at as being in the very small minority. A mere blip on the screen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The results of <em>The Daily Wire\u2019s<\/em> poll show this line of thinking to be a swing and a miss.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With Major League Baseball\u2019s decision to move their annual All-Star Game away from Atlanta due to \u201cvoter suppression,\u201d <em>The Daily Wire<\/em> wanted to gauge the pulse of the nation as it relates to the infusion of politics into sports and hired <em>SurveyMonkey<\/em> to interview 1,026 Americans over 18 in a representative sample that is 31% Republican, 34% Democrat and 35% Independent. To be clear, this is a random sample of Americans, not of <em>Daily Wire<\/em> members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The findings are fascinating.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the poll results, MLB\u2019s political activism is alienating fans. 64% of Americans \u2014 including a majority of MLB fans, Delta Air Line customers, and Coca-Cola consumers \u2014 told the researchers they are less likely to support companies and organizations that insert themselves into political issues and debates. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>70% of all respondents agree with the statement: \u201cCorporations and sports teams should generally stay out of politics.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another interesting finding of the poll is that, despite an avalanche of negative media coverage, key provisions of Georgia\u2019s new election law are actually popular. 78% of respondents, including a majority of Democrats, MLB fans, non-white Americans, and all age groups, support the law\u2019s ID requirement for absentee voting. 63% of respondents, including a majority of non-whites, and 48% of Democrats, support Georgia\u2019s law restrictions on the handing out of gifts, including refreshments, to voters near polling stations and voting lines. Meanwhile, 67% of respondents, including a majority of Democrats and non-whites, support Georgia\u2019s new policies regulating ballot drop boxes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The study also finds that support for the Georgia law grew significantly after Americans learned about its major provisions. Initially, 42% of Americans said they were supportive of the law and 38% opposed it<\/span><span>. After learning about the legislation, 71% said they were \u201cmore supportive\u201d of the Georgia law. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While 55% of Americans polled were initially supportive of MLB\u2019s decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, over half (54%) said they became \u201cless supportive\u201d of the league\u2019s action after learning what the new Georgia election law contains.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The poll reveals the impact that misinformation from liberal media personalities and Democratic politicians can have on the perceptions of Americans. Based on what President Joe Biden and his media cronies preach, one would think the law specifically targets the Black community and the \u201cdisenfranchised.\u201d President Biden has gone so far as to call the law \u201cJim Crow on steroids.\u201d But as The Daily Wire study shows, minorities are strongly supportive of much of the law.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Patrick Ruffini, a pollster with Echelon Insights, explained to the <em>Daily Wire<\/em>,&nbsp;\u201cCorporations are quickly learning that the new Georgia law is not the second coming of Jim Crow as it was sold by Stacey Abrams. In more than one poll, a plurality of Americans support the law-and over two thirds are on board with its key provisions including on voter ID and its changes to absentee and early voting. These results show that the Georgia law is in line with a broad bipartisan consensus among Americans that it should be easy to vote but hard to cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t this what we all want? Do any of us want to go through the weeks of lawsuits and debates we were subjected to just a few months ago?<\/p>\n<p><span>The results of the poll are quite clear. Americans do not want their sports politicized. We tune in to sports to get away from the vitriol that comes with politics. Americans are growing increasingly frustrated with major corporations inserting themselves into the political debate and conversation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Will Major League Baseball and other major corporations realize this before it\u2019s too late? The NBA sure did. During the NBA restart in Orlando, NBA courts were plastered with \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d slogans and social justice messaging was seen on the back of jerseys. But this hasn\u2019t continued into the 2020-2021 season.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy sense is there will be some return to normalcy,\u201d NBA commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN in October. \u201cThat those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor. And I understand those people who are saying \u2018I\u2019m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game,\u2019\u201d Silver said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As it\u2019s becoming increasingly obvious that over half the country is turned off by sports becoming woke, leagues will have a decision to make.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Do they continue to feed into the lies the Left rams down our throats? Or will they take a step back, look at the facts and make an informed decision?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s time to read the room.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball and major corporations across the country are having trouble reading the room, according to the findings of a new national poll commissioned by The Daily Wire which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311797,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-733.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: New Daily Wire Poll Shows \u2018Woke Politics\u2019 Could Hurt MLB\u2019s Bottom-Line","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-733.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: New Daily Wire Poll Shows \u2018Woke Politics\u2019 Could Hurt MLB\u2019s Bottom-Line","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}