Senator Obama delivers highest-rated convention&acceptance speech in HISTORY

[Politics_Guy25]

Wow just wow

Mr. Obama’s speech — a historic one given his status as the first African American nominee of a major political party — reached significantly more viewers than the comparable addresses in 2004. Coverage of John Kerry’s acceptance speech in 2004 had 24.4 million viewers; coverage of George W. Bush’s convention speech that same year drew 27.5 million.

The audience estimate of 38.3 million means that Mr. Obama’s speech reached more viewers than the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final “American Idol” or the Academy Awards this year, the Associated Press notes.

http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/conventions-38-million-view-obamas-speech/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. YES!!!!!

[Enrique]

2. I can't wait til the GOP convention

let the comparisons begin!

[jesus_of_suburbia]

3. That's awesome news!

[Overseas]

4. Read about that earlier but Hip Hip Hooray Again !! //nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Yes! Nobody could deny his brilliance and stature to be president after

viewing it and that's a lot viewing him.

[DerekJ]

6. Plus C-SPAN and PBS viewers that they didn't count. N/T

[ErinBerin84]

7. great!

Besides the speech being amazing, on a shallower note, I was stunned by how visually arresting the presentation was. Not just the set, but the Biden and Obama families just looked so beautiful up on the stage together!

[Jade Fox]

8. Wow!! n/t

[AuntPatsy]

9. Very good news...

[WHAT]

10. I, for one, was really caught-up in it...

the speeches were great.

didn't watch on tv...bet there's a lot more who watched on-line.

[qwlauren35]

11. It's worth repeating...

Bump Palin back out of the spotlight.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. He beat the highest rated American Idol final, the Olympics closing ceremony

and the Oscars........