Posted on 09/04/2008 9:02:29 PM PDT by carlo3b
More than 40 million tune in to Palin’s speech
Both Palin and Obama reached about the same number of viewersLOS ANGELES - Barack Obama apparently isn’t the only “rock star” in presidential politics this year.
After days of intense media coverage about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s qualifications, more than 40 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to see for themselves what they thought of her.
The huge audience for Palin’s acceptance speech rivaled that for Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention six days earlier, and set a tough standard for the top of her own ticket. John McCain was to accept the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday.
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An audience of 37.2 million people watched Palin on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday. PBS estimated its audience at 3.9 million, based on a less reliable sample of several big cities. Nielsen does not count the audience for C-SPAN, which also showed the speech.
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Nearly 2 million more women were watching Palin than men, Nielsen said.
Viewers were far more interested in Palin than Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden’s speech to Democrats last week was seen by an estimated 24 million people.
The audiences for the Obama and Palin speeches were bigger than the ones this year for the Academy Awards, the finale of “American Idol” or the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing.
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I was one of those 3.9 million watching on PBS. They’ve actually been pretty good at not being biased during these speeches. I appreciate that a lot. They were actually praising Palin’s speech last night. It was nice... (The Jim Lehrer News Hour was the group hosting on PBS)
Hells yeah.
That is obviously a VERY positive thing for the GOP.
And 39,999,000 were happy with what she said. Obama was the lone holdout. ;-)
So, she beat Hussein. Take that Alan Colmes.
I’m so glad I won’t have to watch cable news again until the debates.
And to add the fact that 4 less channels covered it.
One of the best lines
Correction -— There were not days of intense coverage relating to Sarah’s qualifications. There were days of intense coverage of her family situation, all of which were completely unrelated to her qualifications for the 2nd highest office in the country.
Not only did watch her speech live, but I have watched it in its entirety several times online. Like a favorite song it gets better every time I watch it.
Which just goes to prove, when the Republican Party is in trouble, all they have to do is take the advise offered on FR.
where do you watch it online?....I’d like to see it from the moment she walked on stage...
I have only watched on CSPAN, matter of fact I just woke up from a nap and right now I am watching all of the convention that I recorded earlier, when I get up at 3am here in Wasilla, Alaska I will briefly tune into FOX and hear what the news was.
40 mil for some unknown vice presidential pick - and the RAT 'anointed ONE' got only 38 mil?
This hasta hurt.
I’ve been watching it exclusively on CSPAN. There’s no hairspray test dummies talking over the proceedings.
I believe it’s up on YouTube.com and also most likely C-Span’s website.
They don’t count C-SPAN??? That was the only network worth watching. They didn’t have news crawls across the screen or talking heads explaining what you are seeing.
I started listening to Palin on the radio then turned on streaming video and watched the entire speech on my laptop. Do those of us who watched that way count in any of the stats?
What about radio listeners? I rarely turn on the TV.
I hated public speaking at my tiny Catholic Girl’s School. I died every time.
I cannot imagine an audience of millions with the composure of Sarah. She is awesome.
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