More than 40 million watch Palin speech (initial figures may have been too low)

AP | September 05, 2008 | by David Bauder

[library user]

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[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Sarah has generated more excitement than any politician in this country since Jack Kennedy.

[Dr. Ursus]

I saw on FOX NEWS that Obama was on 10 stations compared to
Palin’s 6 stations.

[counterpunch]

BET carried Obama, and the other 3 were all spanish language stations. So the race industry is of course giving Obama affirmative action preferential treatment.
 

[GOP Poet]

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[syriacus]

Good to know. Thanks for posting this.

[AFPhys]

I've been looking at the breakdown of this -

category snObama SaraBarracuda

12-17 yo  1.1M      0.6M

18-34     6.7M      5.5M

18-49    16.0M     14.1M

55+      16.5M     17.8M

Af.Am     7.5M      3.0M

Hisp      5.2M      1.4M

M=Millions

Look where the difference lies: snObama needed 8M more “color” viewers to get his 38M - except for those, he would have had only about 15% more audience than the two days before with Hitlery and Bill&Biden !!! Those are the unswayables, anyway! Also, 1/2 million of his ‘advantage’ are too young to vote!

BET and Telemundo carried snObama's but didn't carry Palin's. CSPAN not included in these numbers (That is where I watched - no talking heads interrupting.)

Hurricane Sarah Wins the rating race BIG time, I believe.

This analysis of the initial, Nielson ratings, and does not include PBS or CSPAN or internet outlets.

[library user]

The figures in this article do include PBS, but not C-SPAN.

[hershey]

Hmm, ‘figures may have been too low’. And polling numbers are skewed on a daily basis. Why are we not surprised? Dems/Libs only hope to shove Obama down America’s throat was to hammer the certainty of his election for months on end. His fake Presidential seal is part of the process of inevitability, thus voters would mindlessly pull the Obama lever or simply not vote at all. They did massive a psychological study of this a long time ago, probably right after GW won. Unfortunately, the general dumb public loves Sarah Palin. God bless her and keep both McCain and Palin safe.

[Riley]

I wonder how many we can add for listening on the radio- or how many people would have been added who wanted to listen very much but couldn’t break away from work?

[AFPhys]

Shoot - My breakdown is of the figures released yesterday by Neilson -— the 37.3M vs 38.4M ... I did a copy/paste and forgot to clarify that.

I’m sorry, all.

[counterpunch]

That’s right.
And Palin had a lopsided female audience, too.
Palin’s core audience were middle aged white women, also known as Hockey Moms, who are the very people who will ultimately decide this election.

[AFPhys]

Actually, the M/F breakdown for Palin was darn close to 50/50 -— something like 19.5M women (of the 37.3M figure) - not as lopsided as it was depicted.

[Robert A Cook PE]

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.

Last week, Nielsen said 38.4 million people watched Obama speak at a Denver stadium on the six commercial networks, along with BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo — four networks that didn't cover Palin’s speech. PBS added an estimated 4 million to that total.

(We will breathlessly await the MSM’s summary (showing Palin outranked Obama), while seeing them also ignore the (intentional) bias of the black and Hispanic networks.

[BibChr]

But isn’t the article saying that she had ~40 million while he had ~42 million? Still, O and his extra-stations had more?

[AFPhys]

The Neilson numbers contain the 10 networks for snObama and the 6 networks for Palin. They do NOT contain PBS or CSPAN or Internet viewing for either.

PBS is estimating 4.0M snObama, 3.9M Palin.

CSPAN/Net - anybody’s guess it seems.

Bottom line, to me, is that these two were very close (since I suspect Palin viewers wanted to see her not talking heads and more would tend to watch on CSPAN/net as I did) but that nearly 30% of snObama’s figures were black/Hisp. whereas Palin’s breakdown was very close to demographic.

[AFPhys]

Oh... another thing that gives me great glee -

The libnuts are claiming that Nielson is doing the equivalent of “stuffing the ballot box here” - that Neilson are lying about Palin having that many viewers.... LOL

[G.Love]

I bet a lot of people, like me, watched on C-Span. I couldn’t watch Fox because the anchors kept yapping over everyone’s speech.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

Did they count the people who went to YouTube and watched it there?

[rawhide]

Last week, Nielsen said 38.4 million people watched Obama speak at a Denver stadium on the six commercial networks, along with BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo -- four networks that didn't cover Palin's speech.

Are the 4 networks that did not cover Palin racists or sexists or both? What possible acceptable excuses can they give to cover only one candidate, and not the other, and then claim they are not biased?