Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180204:23:46:00
Following the nfl as closely as they used to. in a 2014 nbc news/"wall street journal" poll we had 58% saying they followed football closely versus 42 who didn't. that was a 16 point net positive difference. this year, only 49% say they follow closely while a slim majority, 51%, now say they don't. that's a minus 2 overall for football and an 18-point swing in interest in just four years. so what's driving this? well, one clue could be in who's driving this. whites have seen a 12-point drop among those who say they follow football closely while blacks and hispanics have essentially held steady...