People love a Clown Show; hence, the appeal of Trump.
"Trump is likely to declare victory for the lower Fox ratings on Thursday night, though the debate still won more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined as they showed Trump's rally."
Last night's debate was the most like a debate, since there wasn't anyone there acting like a 10-year-old.
Enough of the Debates, it probably helped Trump. I think it hurt Cruz as everyone was attacking him.
Now that the media has made both Trump and Cruz unappealing to the voters, we can expect Rubio to be the nominee at the end of the day, just as the GOPe planned it. Funny how that worked out.
Well, I didn’t watch it, but I wasn’t going to watch it with Trump either.
After that initial FoxNews debate with the moderators spending 15 minutes before the debate complementing themselves, giving themselves high-fives, and wallowing in their grandness, I’ve found the whole modern showbiz-debate format harder and harder to take. Plus, I just don’t think I can sit through any debate with John Kasich present. He makes me want to punch my tv-screen.
real news: ratings were virtually unscathed.
Fox certainly took a hit w/o Trump, but the debate still drew more viewers than the two Democratic debates I dug up the numbers on.
So the debate without Trump still did better than the last debate WITH Trump - I don’t see how Trump claims any victory out of that (though he will still try).
and still, fox drew more than four times the viewers of CNN and MSNBC combined
The headline could just as accurately been “Debate without Trump rated higher than previous one with Trump”