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69,989,000 Viewers — Palin-Biden the Most-Watched VP Debate Ever!

Posted by: Mike's America @ 3:49 pm in Uncategorized | 0 views

WOW!

From the Live Feed: Last night’s event was seen by nearly 70 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That’s the most-viewed debate — presidential or vp — since the second round between Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and George Bush in 1992 (which drew an audience of 69.9 million).

Thursday’s event was 33% higher than Friday’s top-of-the-ticket debate between John McCain and Barack Obama. It’s 61% higher than the 2004 debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards. And it ranks 23% higher than the former title-holder for the most-watched vp debate — the 1984 match between George Bush and Geraldine Ferrarro (56.7 million).

No wonder Joe was a litte emotional:

And looking more futzy than usual:

GOOOO SARAH!

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BarbaraS

How do they figure how many watched any one show? Do they count the tvs tuned into it? Or do they have cameras that count the people watching from within the tv? This is probably a stupid question but I would really like to know. Or is it like the dumb polls that don’t mean a hill of beans and is a sampling of the population?

October 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm

Craig

I just knew it, no surprise here. Here is what I said yesterday afternoon in my comment #9 in: “Tonight’s Debate: Opportunity for Sarah Palin to Change the Dynamics of the Campaign.”

“I am very optimistic for tonight. First of all, this will be the most air-viewed debate in History. Everybody is interested in Palin, whether they like her or not. She creates excitement.” (Comment #9)

October 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm

starboardhelm

Wow! Blowhard Joe can really draw ‘em in, can’t he? (NOT!)

October 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm

Padre Steve

I think she did fantastic! I pray they can keep this going as well:
http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-new-kind-of-politician-for.html
God bless our nation as we get closer to the election!

October 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Craig

I wonder if they also calculate the number of persons who watched it on Internet? I watched it on Internet.

October 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm

sarge charlie

I love this woman, she kicked biden’s ass, I hope she can save mccain’s ass.

October 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Cao

I always think of polls as …pollaganda. They are the numbers that the elitists hope for; and if enough people pay attention, they’ve dropped those people into a funnel…like a bunch of sheeple… so the results turn out just as they “predicted”. I don’t much pay attention to polls.

Sarah did a fantastic job, and I think she set it up with comments like - how much respect she has for Biden, and that she was listening to his speeches when she was in second grade.

LOL

There is one great photo out there…and I can’t remember where I saw it - where he’s tugging at his collar like that old comedian used to when he said “I don’t get no respect”!

October 3rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm

luva the scissors

i actually missed the debate live, watched it later, i think palin did awesome, she was on top of bidan. yeah, she may have stumbled a bit, but hell he turned on the tears. she looked so good, you know biden was lokkin at her legs. she really is a real person and didn’t want to play the moderators game. loved it. loved the “i’m not a washington insider” line. she is awesome.

October 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Richard

Conservatism in 2008=winks and gams

God help us all

October 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm

ChrisG

Leftism in 2008=lies, dirty deals and connections, FCC threats, and national socialism

God help us all.

October 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm

PETN

Somebody is lying -

Friday night may have been the most-watched debate since Reagan vs. Carter (80.6 million). The total from last night is 69,989,000 viewers. Normally that’s rounded to 70 million, but since a 1992 debate is listed as 69.9 million and Nielsen said the exact total is not readily available, the measurement company is using the more conservative 69.9 number in its official vp debate announcement.

69,689,000 rounded to three significant digits is 70.0 [not "normally"] - to 1, 2, or 3 it is 70, 70, and 70.0 million. To four significant figures it is 69.69 million - which makes this the most watches VP EVER, and compared to POTUS debates you have to go back to Reagan-Carter 1980.

Even Nielsen Media Research is minimalizing this.

October 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

BarbaraS

I got called by a poll a couple of hours ago. It was automated. They only accepted yes, no or repeat. Hooray, I finally got on a poll. I think the name was United Servies or something like that. Short term memory loss, you know.

October 3rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm

Richard

I’m sorry Chris, but the Republican party (sadly) has lost its identity. This go round I’m going with the Constitution Party.

October 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 pm

Wordsmith

A vote for Constitution Party =/results in a vote that helps Obama.

October 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 pm

Craig

Wordsmith you are wright. Anybody voting for Constitution party is indeed voting for Obama. Please Richard don’t do this.

I had New-Yorker’s friends that were Dems. I linked them to this site and now 3 of them will be voting McCain, please do not destroy my efforts in helping you guys. If you are discouraged at McCain… just think that you will be voting for Palin, that should do the trick.

October 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm

ChrisG

Richard,

Unfortunately though I do not approve of McCain, the national socialist Obama, complete with his CNSF (SS), propaganda wing (media) and fainting/worshiping/brainwashed militant followers are who I am voting against. So it is a referendum against the biased/lying media, against socialism, against the hate and lies of the left, against the true loss of freedom the left brings (wasn’t Bush supposed to be dictator for life according to the left? Projectionism by the left again, I know).

Since it is too late to get an absentee ballot here, I am hoping to hold my deployment off till after the elections so I can vote. Though if Comrade-Fuhrer Obama wins I can just see the terrorists shout in glee and attacking with all they have left. Well, at least I will know where they are and I will not have a leftist admin (yet) telling me I have to read them their “rights” and plea for forgiveness (since America is always to blame according to the left) as these islamofascists… ooops, I mean brave anti-imperialistic “minutemen”… come shooting…. while hiding behind women and children.

October 4th, 2008 at 7:15 am