Posted on 10/14/2015 10:47:26 AM PDT by Chgogal
UPDATED with additional stats: According to Nielsen Fast National ratings data, CNN’s Democratic debate averaged 15.3 million total viewers last night. That would make it the sixth-biggest nonsports cable telecast in history. In the 25-54 demographic, the faceoff among White House hopefuls averaged 4.8 million — the most ever for a Dem debate. CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield bragged on-air this morning that her network’s debate drew “a higher number than the season premiere of The Walking Dead.”
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Big deal. What will the second Democrat debate bring after this snooze fest?
Hollywood Reporter reported earlier it was 9.3 million.
Who is lying?
Yet, it was STILL more than 9 million less than who watched the last republican debate.
I doubt these numbers. Nielsen could be just as much in the bag for the dems as CNN et al.
There's been about 20% of the posts here today remarking about the D debate last night, and those 20% or so are tagged with ... but Trump did better ... was better .... had better numbers ... etc., etc.
The dems can't get any traction without invoking Donald Trump
Trump got more excitement than the Socialist Party of the U.S. formally known as the DNC.....
Walking Dead, Democrat debate. What’s the difference?
I was running through the channels in my motel room, since I don’t have cable at home, and I thought it WAS the walking dead.
Ratings.
Trump tweeting it likely brought in several million.
We watched just for the drinking game. Didn’t last long...
One is a highly successful television series that loyal viewers want more of, while the other is a boring re-run of a bad melodrama that about half the population continues to support and want more of.
This is cause for celebration, Comrades. The Great and Glorious Democrat Party has fulfilled its Five Year Plan in only Three Years!
RE: Democratic Debate Clocks Record 15.3M
Many folks at FR underestimate the support the Dems have.
Some here were predicting a mere 3 million viewers.
How many of those viewers were only watching so they could follow Trump’s live tweets on twitter? Trump announced he would be live tweeting the debate and over 60,000 people subscribed to his twitter channel during the course of the debate.
Most people probably could not tell the difference.
Trump should probably get credit for several million of those viewers. The interest his candidacy has stirred in the primaries probably had some spillover of viewers to the Dims, people who normally would not watch a Republican debate, let along a Dim debate.
He’s just heightened the interest in the primaries in general, both from those who support him and those who dislike him.
I bet half of those viewers were people gathering information for blogs and small articles and the like.
Many folks at FR underestimate the support the Dems have.
First GOP debate had a massive 24 million+ viewers. That's 9 million more than the Dems had.
Some here were predicting a mere 3 million viewers.
Who was?
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