Posted on 08/30/2012 5:26:00 PM PDT by Kolath
I think this verifies with some pretty substantial numbers that there just isn’t the same excitement for Paul Ryan, as there was in 2008 for Governor Palin. Via Mediabistro (emphasis):
On night two of the Republican National Convention, Fox News Channel was once again the network more people went to to get their political fix. That said, every network was down substantially from the same night in 2008, when Sarah Palin made her RNC debut…
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Viewers, not voters. Dang.
Men are visual creatures. Sarah is a visual delight.
Paul Ryan doesn’t have boobies and hot legs.
That alone costs them half the males viewers.
17 Million Less Fewer Viewers Watch Ryan in 2012 than Palin in 2008
I know what you mean. That’s probably one of the main reasons I’m not even watching the GOP convention this year. First one I’ve not tuned in to since 1976. And a lot of it has to my disgust over the way the GOP treated Palin. They just stood by and smirked while she and her family were being financially bankrupted by Dem operatives, when her church was torched, when the media tried to put blame on her for the mass-murder in Arizona, when Letterman was making rape jokes about her 13-year-old daughter, and on and on. And this was all concurrent when she was one of the incredibly few voices taking on Obama, from the stimulus to Obamacare (and enduring a media hellstorm for it).
It just made me lose all respect, confidence and trust in the Republican Party, seeing them so embarrassingly cowed by the media, and entirely content to throw Palin to the wolves. I’d voted exclusively GOP for decades, ever since I first reached voting age, but I really no longer feel any remote connection or kinship to it anymore. It’s a weird feeling, after all these years. But it is what it is.
Besides, the Steelers are playing now.
Kickin’ Carolina’s ass, too. 10-3 in the 3rd
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Exactly right. Hell, I’m keeping up with every development and I’m not actually watching it on TV.
Paul Ryan doesn’t have boobies and hot legs.
Oink, oink, oink.
It was a weird year, 2008. McCain actually had 42.5 million people watch his speech; I’ll be surprised if Romney can meet that number.
But I don’t think this is a big deal — people were curious in 2008, but in 2012 they are mad. We don’t need speeches, we just need the election. People don’t care what the republicans are saying, they are voting for them to stop the bleeding.
I’m not sure it is a bad thing that Ryan was seen as a more traditional pick and therefore didn’t raise the curiosity factor. I’m not sure curiosity would be a good thing this election cycle.
Only if you have an IQ under 80, and actually believe Hope and Change actually has a definite, unique meaning, and worse, and that it never can result in a change for the worse, and much worse.
Only if you have an IQ under 80, and actually believe Hope and Change actually has a definite, unique meaning, and worse, and that it never can result in a change for the worse, and much worse.
Also, last year’s convention followed labor day, when people were back at work and back home.
This year’s is during the last week of summer vacation.
Maybe 17 million have suspended their satellite or cable services?
I know I reduced a lot of my Dish channels.
Bingo!
Our household watches such events on C-Span, where the "talking heads" don't interrupt and talk over.
Isn't that what everyone does who has an interest in such things?
A woman for vice president is a bit more unusual than yet another man, not to mention part of the U.S. was busy dealing with a hurricane.
DING DING DING!!!! Winner!
We cancelled our DirecTV yesterday. I came home after work and re-connected the antenna on the roof. Watched the convention coverage on PBS (which actually ran the convention starting at 6pm here in the Chicago tv market) and thoroughly enjoyed Condoleeza Rice's speech.
None of the "major networks" carried her speech in total, but PBS here did. I did however have to mute the volume whenever that dumbass b*tch Judy "what's happening to our country?!" Woodruff and her stupid panel came on during breaks.
Forget standing by and letting it happen, plenty of them were more than happy to join in the party and stick knives in her back.
I just watched it on Youtube (in 2008 watched Palin live). So I was one of the 17 million. I like Palin, but Ryan’s delivery and the substance behind it was far more compelling to me than Palin’s speech. I thought he absolutely knocked it out of the park. Very strong performance.
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