Interesting point about the TV audience for the 3rd debate

[flowomo]

from politicalbettingodds.com:

"The next debate is scheduled for Monday, October 22nd at 9pm EST... right in the middle of Monday Night Football where the Chicago Bears will be hosting the Detroit Lions in Obama's home state, Illinois. How this will affect the ratings and the size of viewing audience will have to wait to be determined."

http://www.politicalbettingodds.com/2012-us-presidential-election-odds.html

[shraby]

1. Many households have more than one t.v. Mr. Shraby will probably

watch the game, but I'll be watching the debate. Could be true for many households.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

2. Tivo and replays..... nt

[brewens]

3. I'll be watchin'....Da Bears! Also checking in here and flipping to the debate. Probably

the debate if it's on a halftime. I'll watch the debate replay or just catch the rundown on probably Current. Maybe MSNBC.

[krawhitham]

4. Could also be in the middle of game 7 of the NLCS

If the Giants win game 6 on Sunday

[madamesilverspurs]

5. More interesting and somewhat icky point

is that the debate will be held in the same town where Mitt infamously opined about the 47%.


...

[TeamPooka]

6. I'm taking Obama and giving the points... It's a lock. nt

[Tx4obama]

7. CNN wil replay the debate all night long. And video of whole debate will be online to watch

It's not like the old days when if you didn't watch something live then you missed out forever.

And as far as the 'ratings number/viewing size' - the number doesn't include folks that watch on C-Span and/or live-stream online.

[demgrrrll]

9. Hi what do you think about the "we will unleash Mitt" strategy that I have been reading

about?

[Tx4obama]

10. I guess I do not have an opinion, because I haven't read anything about it yet :)

[wisteria]

11. The debate is on foreign policy and it is football night.

Extra TV's or not, men will not be watching this debate in huge numbers-they will catch the reviews and polls later, and women will be watching the debate in larger numbers.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

12. The Sunday night game has higher ratings

I'd guess Detroit/Chicago will draw solid numbers for ESPN but it's not appointment TV unless you are a fan of either team. Chicago is having a nice season though.

If I had to guess this will be the third highest rated of the three, but then again there were a lot of people hand wringing over debate 2 not drawing very many viewers and it did. The subject matter might also knock it down a bit. No matter how much the media wants to push Libya this is an election that is being fought over the economy.

[begin_within]

13. As soon as they get tired of all the tackling and roughhousing,

they'll switch over to the football game.

[ailsagirl]

14. LOL!! Good one!

[theKed]

15. foot...ball...?

[davidpdx]

16. Talk about the lesser of the two evils

The Bears or the Lions? Is there a third party candidate?

[boingboinh]

17. Why does every debate collide with a Football game?

At 24 hours/day * 7 days/week = 168 hours why is it that every time a presidential debate is on it always is up against a NFL game?
That is a 1/168 chance = 0.59% probability of happening each week.

[underpants]

18. The first two were on Tuesday night

there is always college football on but there are no Tuesday night NFL games.