McCain To Barry: Who’s Your Daddy?!
Republican presidential candidate John McCain attracted 38.9 million television viewers to his acceptance speech last night, Nielsen Media Research said.
The total exceeded the 38.4 million who watched Democratic nominee Barack Obama last month. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, McCain’s vice presidential running mate, drew 37.2 million on Sept. 3 after three days of intense media coverage.
To steal from Insty, Indeed!
Update from Greg:
Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire has more: McCain Scores with TV Viewers
If members of Team McCain weren’t NFL fans before, last night’s record ratings for John McCain’s acceptance speech would certainly turn them converts.
Thanks in part to NBC, which threw to its convention coverage directly after the end of the first NFL regular season game (between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins), 38.9 million people watched McCain give his acceptance speech, Nielsen Media Research reported this afternoon.
Almost 600,000 more people tuned into McCain’s speech at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul than watched Barack Obama at Invesco Field in Denver last Thursday, Nielsen said. Obama drew 38.4 million viewers, which was at the time a new record for convention speeches.
Interestingly, about 4.2 million Hispanic viewers tuned in last night, compared to 1.4 million the night before, when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gave a rousing speech to accept the vice presidential nomination. African-American viewership remained stable, however, with about 3 million viewers tuning in. That’s less than half the number that tuned in to watch Obama speak last week.
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Until this year, the most-watched Democratic convention happened in 1980, when 20.7 million homes tuned in to watch Jimmy Carter give his acceptance speech, Nielsen says. The most watched Republican convention until this year was 1976, when Gerald Ford accepted the nomination.
This year, average viewership of the Democratic convention rose 48 percent compared to four years ago, to 30.2 million viewers. Average viewership of the Republican convention (which was only three days compared to four days for Democrats) was up 52 percent from 2004 to 34.5 million.
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Posted by William Teach on September 5, 2008 3:00 pm
» Filed Under Elections, News, Obama/Biden, Sarah Palin
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It’s racist that John McCain had more people watching his convention speech than watch Obama’s. Call out the lawyers and arrest all of the people who watched McCain’s speech. Boycott the racist networks which carried McCain’s speech! It’s outrageous that the Annointed One has to go through with this pretense of an election process when He has been sent by Heaven to heal the planet and lead us to the New Jerusalem.