A Friday news dump doesn't equal 38 million viewers watching last night.....

[Wetzelbill]

They might have the cycle but it's the weekend, nobody cares that much. But last night, with their own eyes and ears, people watched and heard pure magic.

They don't need a headline to tell them what to think. They know what they saw. They know how historic last night was.

They saw something special last night and today they watched a desperate man make a desperate choice. It's newsworthy, but it won't resonate the way Obama's speech did.

[AuntPatsy]

1. thats true but sometimes I fear americans have short attentions spans

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. It isn't sometimes, and is a reality - not just Americans....it is an emerging cultural trend -

24 hour news cycles, computer use, video games, recent movies all create a microattention span. Very sad, really!

[Wetzelbill]

8. I totally forgot what I was going to say

:)

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. What?

:rofl: :rofl:

[Wetzelbill]

11. I was lucky I even remember the right day of the week

Damn MTV generation.

[Wetzelbill]

13. we do

But if anything Obama resonates more than McCain's pick. And many people probably don't really care about a VP anyway. No real evidence that a VP ends up making a huge difference or anything. Lloyd Bentsen trouncing Quayle didn't amount to much, in the end. It's still Obama vs McCain and last night's show will be tough to top. And the debates will be brutal, half the battle is just looking them up on stage together. Young, dynamic guy and an older guy who is so gaffe prone he comes off senile.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Gustav will knock them out of the news cycle tomorrow.

[Wetzelbill]

4. right

And remind everybody of the Katrina tragedy.

[Overseas]

3. That's the good news!. It pales in comparison to Obama's speech. /nt

[Wetzelbill]

7. yes, one does dwarf the other

Good for her, but last night people witnessed something much more amazing than a purely political choice, and a bad one at that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Nope and that was at prime time... his news was too early in the day

and on Friday. Also, I believe Obama got more interest and hype
with the text messaging and the mystery with his VP pick.

[Wetzelbill]

10. It's an interesting pick, but really

It's a lot like the Rezko-Ayers stuff he did last week out of desperation. Too late in the week and was dwarfed by other events. She has staying power in the news as a VP candidate but her immediate impact isn't one that nullifies 4 days of a great convention, plus the Biden choice and McCain's housing gaffe.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. I think it was a crap shoot for McCain and showed carelessness and

recklessness. The glamour of the pick will wear off after a day and
then everyone will say WTF was McCain thinking.

This is gonna bite McCain in the ass by the time of the first debate.

[Wetzelbill]

16. I'd say so

It makes him seem horribly shallow for knocking Obama with the "celebrity" stuff too. Lloyd Bentsen smoking up Quayle didn't help Dukakis much in the end, but that was because Poppy Bush's attacks framed Dukakis in a bad light. Obama's deflected all that. And the difference between McCain and Obama standing on stage in a debate will be remarkable. And having to follow his big speech with one next week? He can't match that.

I still think, despite polls, that voter turnout and the advantage in Dem registration will be the difference. In the primaries, Dems crushed Republicans in turnout. Polls don't reflect turnout like that, they take a random sampling of say 1000 people. If you pick any 1000 people this might look close, but if you look at the number of people who identify themselves as Democrats now etc, the picture starts getting dim for McCain. Plus too many forces against the GOP right now too. Like in 2006.

[AuntPatsy]

12. I love that pic

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Me too!!!!

The man is solid.