Posted on 09/05/2008 8:16:50 AM PDT by B Knotts
Presidential candidate John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention drew more television viewers than his rival Barack Obama attracted at the Democratic party's event last week, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
Across all broadcast networks Thursday, Sen. McCain’s speech ended the night with a 4.8 rating/7 share, compared to Sen. Obama’s 4.3/7 average, according to overnight numbers from metered households in 55 U.S. markets measured by Nielsen. These ratings are preliminary, however, and are subject to change.
NBC’s coverage of Sen. McCain’s speech started directly at the tail end of the opening game of NFL season, with the speech pulling in a 6.3 rating/10 share, topping Sen. Obama’s speech last week by 26%. That lead-in may have boosted audiences who last night turned out in droves to watch Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin introduce herself to the country.
ABC’s showing of the McCain speech averaged a 4.5/7, down 2% from the same night of the Democratic convention last week, while CBS’ coverage took in a 3.4/5, an increase of 3%.
Why not find a t-shirt store—one that can put lettering on it—and have your own shirt made stating how you feel about our VP candidate? Surely they have these places in TX. In any case, that’s what I’m going to do. Personally, I like “Palin Rocks”. When she is presidential candidate I’m gonna have a shirt made with the slogan “Palin Rules”. What a lady!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, can I get a link, I cross posted the info to Arfcom and they’re link nazis lol
I give Palin’s speech a A+...I give McCain’s speech a B-.
It sounded very typical of a campaign stump speach and that was it. The best part were the few zingers he threw in there and the last 2-3 minutes when he showed actual passion and energy about standing up.
The rest was pretty boring.
Yesterday afternoon I was analyzing the ratings, and noted that of the 38M who watched snObama, 12M+ were minority - way out of kilter with demographics, and 8M more than Sarah’s audience, which was pretty in line with demographics.
I then said, “I will bet that McCain’s is even bigger than last night” ... due to her popularity. Gov.Palin has excited AMERICA, not just Republicans, and she DREW AUDIENCE for McCain.
Not surprised.
That means all those folks saw Obama supporters crash the convention, and was able to compare and contrast McCain’s low-key and intimate “discussion” speech with Obama’s partisan “Rock Star” ego trip.
I’m betting McCain pealed major independents last night.
Yee-Haw!!!
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.
When the Neilson Breakdown comes out for McCain's speech, I'll add it.
What are link nazis?
I know, I’ve caught hell from all sorts of pundents and folks on both sides of the isle, but I don’t see this race being close at all when its said and done.
I know I’m bucking traditional thinking with that statement.. I know all the arguments for it, I’ve had to listen to and counter them time and again over the last several months.
I am not saying take the race lightly, fight hard 24/7 as if we are losing, but I reject completely this is going to wind up being a 1-3 point race on election day.
Had the Dems chose Hillary, or some other politician with a record, experience and track record, yep, it would go down to the wire. They didn’t, they put up an empty suited schlub, who’s done nothing, says anything and thinks you are too stupid to notice when he shows his other face to his liberal friends.
The press has been all over the “excitement” factor of Fauxbama, and its BS. Look at his support, yes its rabid in some segments, but non existent in others. Blue Dogs do not support him deeply at all, working class don’t trust him. It has nothing to do with his skin color, it has everything to do with the fact he’s just not honest, and deep and has no record of accomplishment to assage concerns about the guy in the $10,000 suit telling folks what they want to hear.
Excitment by a small group does not equate to large deep support, and its important that the press and pundents wake up to this. He LOST most of the closing primaries, and lost all the important states in the end among his own party faithful. He hasn’t overcome those problems, no matter what you are being told, and he won’t be able to.
His entire strategy is to try to portray McCain as Bush III, and leverage Bush hatred to get to victory.. IE make the election a referendum on Bush, and that’s not going to fly. No one, no one that has been remotely paying attention can look at John McCain and see Bush, not Bush 41 and not Bush 43. He cannot win the election by this strategy, because the real question in most americans minds when they look at him, is simply this... WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHAT HELL HAVE YOU DONE? You have no resume, you’ve done nothing.. why should I give you the keys to the White House? The most powerful job in the world? Why?
Hope and Change delivered as nothing but words are not going to get you there.
Every major decision he’s made in this campaign has been horrible, and not one delivered by a man with confidence. He snubbed Hillary and more importantly her supporters, politically this was an insanely stupid move. He picked a joke of a VP candidate, who brings NOTHING to the table except perhaps the belief by him and his advisers some counter to no foreign policy background. He has done nothing to ingraciate himself to the parts of his own party he’s having trouble with. HATE BUSH isn’t enough, they tried that in 04 and lost, and that’s when they were running AGAINST BUSH! Now you want to try to make McCain a Bush surrogate and try again? Please.
There is no way I look at this election and see the 1-3 point spread. I just don’t see it, nothing in the fundamentals I’ve seen point to this at all.
If the leftist sites are to be believed, their confidence level in their ticket is just as shallow.
They were crying and wailing within minutes of Palin’s announcement and haven’t let up at all.
You don’t do that when you have confidence in your seasoned and qualified candidate.
You are.
Yeah, I agree. Between the excitement Palin has generated and the lead in of the football McCain got real good numbers. Picking Sarah was the best move McCain has EVER made.
For any conservative leaning person, McCain’s speech was not exiting, at all. But all last night, it was a time to talk to more moderate voters - McCain’s big supporters.
We’re not voting for McCain anymore, though, we’re voting for Palin and whatsisname.
I think McCain did exactly what he was trying to do - reintroduce himself, and assure middle America that he would be steady at the helm and continue to “work for them” to change Washington.
I hope so. I hope Rass has McCain up by 3 on Monday. I’m sure by this afternoon he’ll have some type of poll out. In particular I want to see how McCain is doing in Ohio, PA, NH, Michigan , Missouri. His speech was not meant for conservatives. It was meant for independents and democrats. I don’t think like they do so I’ll be cuirious to see how they react to the convnetion and McCain’s speech.
Yes I think they are. They really overplayed their hand on Palin by attacking from all angles and American’s aren’t as stoopid as the Dims like to treat them. If you throw $h!t some of it is sure to blowback on you. Call this blowback and it seems to be sticking to them too.
I agree.
The look of despair in the liberal media is very telling. Now all they want to talk about is how much Cindy McCain spends on clothing. Democrats are in full panic mode.
I agree with you. I would not have had McCain put anyone other than Palin on the ticket (or another of the few super dynamic conservatives). Sarah is going to initiate a “bandwagon” effect, I really believe. As soon as it appears quite likely that McCain will win, everyone is going to start deciding to vote for Sarah so they can be part of what is going to be a historic rise to her Presidency.
Biden spoke? Who knew?
Who's speech did he give?
Yeah, well, they did the same thing with Nancy Reagan, and yet gave Jackie Kennedy a pass.
Cindy’s in good company, and I look forward to her bringing her sense of style to the National Stage.
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