Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night nearly matched the record-setting numbers of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Palin pulled in 37.2 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That's 55% higher than Day 3 of the DNC, when her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, and President Clinton took the stage (24 million).

It's also up a sharp 99% from the Republican convention's third day in 2004 (18.7 million) and easily bests the numbers viewers attracted by George W. Bush when he accepted the nomination (27.6 million). In fact, it came close to upsetting Obama's historic address last Thursday -- the most-watched convention speech in history (38.4 million viewers).

http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/09/palin-ratings-s.html

I'm hoping it's because the American public wants to be informed about both sides that they'll watch crap rolling down hill.

She is a virtual unknown. Did you expect something different?

If that's true why didn't you source Nielsen?

As requested ..............

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/category/politics/

And your point?

And To day The Boots On the Ground Like Me Got a 20% Voter Registration and Registration updates the Elect Is Fed Up With The Hate based And The Culture Of Lies Republican Campaign Nothing About Health Care Nothing About Good Paying Jobs For Americans Nothing But The Same From Macan And The Change That Barack Obama, Can For Us Regain the representation that the republicans reserve for their lobbyist That is Quite obvious .

If I understood your post correctly, you seemed to be doubting the 37.2 million number for Governor Palin's address. Link is direct to Nielsen's website that verifies that number.

The numbers are not FOR Palin's address. They indicate how many people watched it.

Americans love to go to carnivals.

The hard cold #'s tell a different story.

People of voting age total 18,653,000. So in reality less than half of the total number are of voting age. And that number is less than the votes Obama received in the primaries.

So I ask again what's your point?


Twisting the facts to fit your agenda?

I too would like to know what motivated this topic.

Carabou Barbie has no business whatsoever being VP but then again McCrazy has no business being president either.

Nearly. Operative word.

So sorry DeadSkunkInTheMiddleOfTheRoad.

Close...but no cigar.

Obama's numbers are up too; $8 million overnight, heading toward $10 million by the time McCain speaks in a couple of hours:

MSNBC: Politics -- How The Heck Did This Happen? Obama Raises $8 Million After Palin Speech

And that's a MEANINGFUL number. How many people WATCH a particular show has nothing to do with whether or not they LIKE the person. I used to watch "Married With Children." Does that mean I condone that kind of family? lol

If you scroll down the page at the Nielsen website, they also give a breakdown of viewers of Senator Obama's Convention speech by age group.

I am simply posting the ratings as released and listed by Nielsen on their website. No spin offered nor given.

What did you expect? Nobody knows her. Who is Sarah Palin BTW? Most people were listening to see what she's about and many left with a taste of the same old politics.

The neocons are freaked out. That's what motivated it.

I love that. Looks like her attack spawned a response they didn't expect. OOOHH! Too bad. And guess what else.

From Nielsen:

More than 21.5 million people watched the second night of the 2008 Republican National Convention — a 17% decrease from the 26 million viewers who tuned in last week for day two of the Democratic National Convention.

Tuesday night’s speeches by Former Senator Fred Thompson and Senator Joe Lieberman drew many more women (11.2 million) than men (9.5 million), as was also the case on day two of the Democratic convention, when Hillary Clinton delivered her endorsement of Barack Obama.

So far, coverage of the GOP convention has not drawn the large numbers of African American viewers that the Democrats’ convention attracted last week. On Tuesday night, 2.1 million African American viewers (5.8% of all African Americans) tuned in for coverage of the RNC. In comparison, more than double that number — 4.6 million African Americans (12.7% of all African Americans) — tuned in to day two of the DNC

And numbers among Hispanics are depressing 847,000 above age 2.

We can read also.

Sometimes you all should leave well enough alone.


NEXT!

Don't tell me, let me guess.....ummmm, Palin now has 3 hundred billion million percent of all voters ever to walk the face of the planet, and 50 million trillion of those yet to be born!

Barack now only has -5%.

God did this you know because God is a war-mongering, death loving, money thieving republican.

A lot of those watcvhing both Biden and Palin were watching to pick up intel on how to fight the candidate. A lot were watching Palin because they had no idea who that bubblehead is. What happened to Obama's fuind-raising numbers says something about how favorably they reacted to what both Biden and Palin had to say.

A record day for Obama after people heard what Palin had to say for herself is somebody's way of saying "EWWWW!"

You are so correct!

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They hit and run

Speaking of which, there's another twist irrelevant to Palin...or maybe not so much:

RRMB, Iraq/Afghanistan: U.S. Invades Pakistan, thought that was a bad idea?

Which puts the last paragraphs of this blogged letter from today's Caller Anne about her former Wasilla mayor in interesting bas relief

Andrys blog: Kilkenny on Palin

Well.....it was like a beauty contest wouldn't you say?

First of all, calling her a "bubblehead" doesn't advance anyone, even though it feels good!

She's not necessarily a "bubblehead," after all, she is the governor of a state with 650,000.

I know that I tuned in to see for myself, without spinmeisters, to evaluate her myself.

I'm quite pleased that so many people tuned in.

As I mentioned before, I frequent quite a few moms boards (which means pretty much exclusively women) and, with the exception of a single new user who signed up last night, every single one of them who post frequently posted something similar to this:

"She scares the shit out of me."

"OMG! OMG! OMG! Please tell me Mccains playing a practical joke on us!!"

"okay. I give. I realy do. Obama and Biden--not as bad as I thought. What can we do to keep her offa my White House!?"

Or various other words to that effect.

They would never in their most wild of imaginations have believed the truth if they hadn't seen it for themselves. I'm more than positive that they would not have read my "assessment" post if they hadn't seen it, because politics generally makes their eyes glaze over.


So, as long as I had been "bloviating" against McCain, all it took was one "Show Me" event, and my work is done!

Thanks for inspiring me. I just made a donation. Let them see that community organizers are to respected.

D'accord. The same was much the case with the mater, and certainly the bulk of responses to her speech on the LAT's Top of the Ticket blog this AM, from various points around the country, were thumbs-down from wommyns. However, must disagree with your very last point.

The work has barely begun, and won't really get started until January 19, 2009.

another wonderful topic

well, lets see...Americans do love to slow down and watch a traffic accident, maybe that is why so many tuned in...

that's what I was thinking

I do agree for the most part.

I was just referring to those specific boards.

They are converts, let them spread out and convert others!!

Ding-ding-ding! Exactly.

It's the only reason I watched. had to see for myself. So, I'd say, ...37/2 = 18.5 Adjust for error and I conclude she didn't increase republican viewership all that much. , but then I'm assuming at least 35% of that viewer count was Dems.

One poster in in another thread confessed he/she had to watch it for school homework...poor kid.

I wonder if that was a homework assigned to lots of kids cross America?

Hehehe that wold boost her rating

People who despise her watched the speech...kinda like driving by an accident on the highway, cars slow down to a crawl to get a look then speed up....the crowd disperses

The above deserves a thread of its own.

The best thing about her speech was Obama pulled 8 million in contributions from it. best thing the republicans could have done for him.

She ran against a sitting governor who had angered the people. She was elected by the people of Alaska.

There are some excentric people in Alaska, and she is a Republican. There are some bubbleheads in rather important positions in the GOP. Look who's president right now.

Conservative Hippies..they'll work for pot, crack, food, whatever you got that they need...Living off the land in summer and the sea in winter..that's a biggie; canning & preserving food, meat, etc; woodworking, other crafts...using winter time to repair what you need for summertime and vice versa

If there is a horrible traffic wreck with dismembered bodies strewn on the hillside and I slow down to see it, are the bodies popular?

PS-OMG Christine said the same thing! Jinx!

Why did you run away OP?

Point, Set, Game and Match. . . .

Adult book stores closed down so the DOM (Dirty Old Men) had to watch something.

A lot of people watch NASCAR.... for the wrecks.

A lot of people watch hockey... for the fights.

This may have been brought up before, sorry I'm at work.

WE were watching Palin because THEY (I'm looking at you Middle of the road, or should I call you Road Kill? Call Palin to see if she has a good recipe for RoadKill Stew)

I'm sorry got off track..because THEY were making so much noise about her.

Know thy enemy. (I'm looking at you...well you get the idea.)