I don’t know if it’s as big a problem as it appears. You Tube, Google etc play a major role in allowing people to live thier life and watch at thier convenience. I haven’t watched one minute of coverage live. Too much fluff. I watch the parts that important to me the next day.
Karl Rove’s and the GOP-e’s Tuesday night RINO crapfest lost 46% percent of the viewers that were watching Sarah in 2008. Nearly 50% of the audience bailed this year. Just terrible.
No I think more switched to CSPAN from the networks so that did not have to listen to MSM bots and avoid the commercials.
Last night the Cowboys and Dolphins played. Was there an NFL football game playing the same night as Palin spoke in 2008?
I have been watching it, and thoroughly enjoying it. I loved Paul Ryan’s talk, and IMHO Condaliza Rice is still a brilliant woman, and very good speaker.
I’m beginning to think FR is now inhabited by bunches of liberals.
Well, I guess I’m among those who did not tune in this time. I’ve watched every GOP convention on tv for over thirty years, but I’ve just taken a pass this time. I’m too soured nowadays on it all. A big trio of events from the past few years, starting with Bush pushing amnesty, then the backstabbing of Palin, and finally, the nomination of a liberal from Massachusetts, that’s what has really put out the flame for me. Don’t really feel any connection to the GOP anymore, just an empty distance.
I’m watching it on CSPAN.
The real question is why are so many people watching now. As much as I have loved politics in my life the conventions have always been stunningly boring.
Two words Sarah Palin. Many people tuned in to see her and hear her speech in 2008.
That being said you are wrong about the quality of the speakers. They were great. Paul Ryan, Condi Rice, N. Mex gov all gave great speeches. I would give it an A+. I wish Sarah had also spoken though.
Yea and that really translated into votes, huh?
People tuned in to out of curiosity because Sarah made such a splash when McCain picked her both good and bad. I think by the time she spoke at the RNC convention it was already known that her trashy teenage daughter was knocked up out of marriage. It was just as much a side show attraction as anything else.
Oh btw, Ryan is just as conservative as Palin, so your attack about people tuning out a RINO makes no sense.
Dems are afraid to watch anything like this... it hurts their little brains to have to think. Instead, they just go to Huffington Post to get their talking points of the day.
Most of my friends and family are Republicans or Republican-sympathetic. Few of them had any idea there was a convention on, and none had any interest in watching it. They all hate Obama, but I can’t get a kind word for Romney out of any of ‘em.
There is a clear enthusiasm issue here with the “base”. I can see a lot of GOP folks just not bothering to turn out if there’s anything else going on election day. I know I’ll only be showing up to vote in my congressional and local races.
I watched Ryan on C-SPAN and Governor Martinez on The Blaze...I don’t need a bunch of repugnant pundits interpreting what I just watched for me...
C-SPAN
Wasn’t Sara on night three in 2008? Does networks include cable?
Do the ratings include C-Span? Most of the people (including the First lady and me) we know watched it on C-Span. The First lady stated she didn't want to listen to the screaming heads.
5.56mm
I don’t know if I’m representative or not- but this year I’ve switched to C-Span for the first time so I can actually listen to the speeches instead of the pundits. I can hear the pundits anytime- but if I’d been watching any of the cables or networks I would have missed some terrific speakers.
Six networks covered Palin’s speech. Did ABC, CBC or NBC cover? I can’t find which 6.
Found it. All of the majors covered it, so we’re surprised fewer tuned in to Ryan’s? Not.
“An audience of 37.2 million people watched Palin on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC”
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/2008-09-04-1857998614_x.htm
“GOP-e”
What is that?