Democratic Convention Getting Good Ratings

[Drunken Irishman]

The Nielsen ratings for the first two days of the Democratic National Convention are out and they show a couple of interesting things:

* Hillary Clinton's speech (26.0 million viewers) had higher ratings than Michelle Obama's speech (22.3 million viewers).
* African Americans continue to watch the convention in a higher proportion than the rest of the population
* Almost five times as many people (26 million) watched Day Two coverage in 2008 vs. Day Two in 2004 (5.9 million) when only the cable networks covered the convention.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/27/democratic_convention_getting_good_ratings.html

To compare Clinton's speech with Kerry, Kerry's acceptance speech only garnered 24 million viewers; Bush 27 million.

Expect Obama's acceptance speech to get well over 30 million.

[doublethink]

1. Awesome. n.t.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. This is good. I hope most of those people watched on C-Span and

didn't get subjected to FAUX's idea of fair and balanced camera coverage.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Almost half of them are watching CSPAN

or some other source without the bloviating bobbleheads. I don't blame them.

Just doing simple math for Michelle's speech: 22.3 million total viewers minus 12.5 million combined network viewers leaves 9.8 million getting it from (I assume) CSPAN, PBS, Dish 211, or some online feed.

Approximately 44%. That's great news!

My source for the numbers:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3455115
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/FREE/50506/1040/newsletter01

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Keep those cards 'n letters comin'! n/t

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

5. I wonder what the stats are on the number of people streaming at the DemCon website?

The HD stream is beautiful, I have to say...

QDM

[Bullet1987]

6. Let's not get too excited yet...let's see what the Rethug ratings will look like