Neilsen ratings: McCain tops Obama
According to Nielsen Media Research, 38.9-million television viewers in the United States watched Senator John McCain accept the Republican Party’s Presidential nomination, which tops the short-lived record 38.3-million who saw Barack Obama accept the Dem nomination in front of Styrofoam columns in a football stadium last week by over half a million folks. (Only 37.2-million watched Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech on Wednesday.) This was despite that fact that Obama had four more cable networks tuned to his pabulum than bothered to carry Senator McCain.
John McCain faced a high bar and easily rose above it. I don’t know what this does or does not bode for the November election, but it dispels the rest of the Obama myth.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
AP is reporting that the viewing audience for Sarah Palin’s speech is 40,000,000!!!
September 6th, 2008 at 2:33 am
This difference is statistically insignificant. Virtually the same number of people watched each of the conventions.
September 6th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Actually, though it may be by a statistically insignificant amount, in your view, according to Nielsen, more people watched McCain than tuned in for Obama despite Obama’s slightly wider coverage.
The point of this is that despite the media’s cries of Obama’s supremacy, how his message struck a chord and enraptured America. a non-polished former-Navy pilot without the faux-Greek backdrop was watched by more people.
This election has changed greatley, and David Axelrod is showing himself to be singularly incapable of properly adapting.