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08-29-2008, 10:52 PM #1
Obama's speech seen by almost 40 million
NEW YORK - Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history.
More people watched Obama speak from a packed stadium in Denver on Thursday than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final "American Idol" or the Academy Awards this year, Nielsen Media Research said Friday. (Four playoff football games, including the Super Bowl between the Giants and Patriots, were seen by more than 40 million people.)
His TV audience nearly doubled the amount of people who watched John Kerry accept the Democratic nomination to run against President Bush four years ago. Kerry's speech was seen by a little more than 20 million people; Bush's acceptance speech to GOP delegates had 27.6 million viewers.
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08-29-2008, 10:56 PM #2
rock star!
I watched...
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08-29-2008, 11:00 PM #3
There are 72 million Democrats. See stats here. I would hope he would have gotten at least have of them to watch. :) That is some impressive number though seeing that he doubled Kerry!
Ash, here is the entire speech in case anyone missed it.
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08-29-2008, 11:35 PM #4
Thanks Mike.
I wonder what the turnout will be for McCain's speech. How many registered Republicans are there?
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08-29-2008, 11:36 PM #5
55 Million. Same link above. The reason there is such a difference is because Democrats win all the big cities like New York and L.A. by large margins. Take out the big cities and Republicans win by landslides. Here is the map for 2004.
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08-29-2008, 11:38 PM #6
Far less than I thought after seeing the Democrat number.
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08-30-2008, 12:01 AM #7
55 Million. Same link above. The reason there is such a difference is because Democrats win all the big cities like New York and L.A. by large margins. Take out the big cities and Republicans win by landslides. Here is the map for 2004.
I need to look for the county by county map from 2004. It is crazy!
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08-30-2008, 12:40 AM #8
See map above.
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08-30-2008, 01:03 AM #9
maps are similar but with the county by county you see that even in a lot of the states Kerry won, bush won the majority of counties, just not the major cities.
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08-30-2008, 01:09 AM #10
Can someone explain to me how the map relates to about 40 million watching Obama's speech? I swear you Republicans confuse me!
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Originally Posted by mikesilvia 
