Just for 'tripper....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:42:13 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:45:44 -0500, wrote:

Even allowing that every person in PBS's 3-hour slot numbers watched the
whole 3 hours, including the speeches, it still only gives 41.9 million
voters to McCain's 41.6. On the other hand PBS itself says (via
Lehrer):

"_More than 42 million people tuned in Thursday to see John McCain's
acceptance speech_," (emp. added)....yet the ever "fair and balanced"
Lehrer crew continues with "matching the number who watched Barack
Obama's speech last week."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/polit...aul_09-05.html

And on a side note...42 million is the same as 38 million?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/polit...ace_08-29.html

SNICKER,
R


"John McCain's acceptance speech may not be getting the rave reviews
of his Democratic rival Barack Obama's.

But more people watched on TVs measured by Nielsen Media Research.

Nielsen reported this afternoon that an estimated 38.9 million people
-- a record -- watched McCain's acceptance speech Thursday night on
the three broadcast networks, plus CNN, FOX News Channel, and MSNBC,
compared to 38.4 million who watched Obama's speech last week, which
was carried on four other cable networks as well.

McCain even drew a bigger audience than his running mate, Sarah Palin,
who drew about 37 million for her speech Wednesday night.

The usual gender and racial gap in elections showed up in the figures.
Significantly more men (17.9 million) watched McCain than Obama (16.2
million), while more women watched Obama (19.9 million) than McCain
(19.2 million), Nielsen said. Also, more whites watched McCain (32.2
million) than Obama (27 million), while the opposite held among
African Americans with 7.5 million watching Obama and 3.1 million
watching McCain.

When PBS is included, McCain's and Obama's viewerships are nearly
equal.

PBS, which compiles its figures separately, said that about 2.7
million tuned in for its coverage Thursday night -- down from 3.2
million for Palin and 3.5 million for Obama's acceptance speech.

That makes McCain's total audience nearly 41 million, compared to
nearly 42 million for Obama

One more time - add the numbers in the article...

38.9 million plus 2.7 million = your answer here
38.4 million plus 3.5 million = your answer here

and about 40 million for Palin."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/..._speech_m.html

Aside from the math versus description thing, the PBS numbers given are
_estimates_ for the entire 3 hours, not the speech, and they don't
include C-Span. I've also seen _estimates_ that claim PBS numbers at
Obama 4 mil and McCain 3.5 mil, again for the 3 hour period. When the
accurate numbers _for the speeches_ are used, McCain had more viewers.

Anyone who watched these speeches would probably have to rate them
Obama-Palin-McCain.

Nope. Not even close, and certainly not across all categories.

If McCain didn't have Palin on board to get the
talibangelicals hyped then he would already be trailing in the polls
after his mediocre presentation.

As of now, he does have her on board and he isn't trailing:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...obama-225.html

If McCain wants to win this he has to keep on appearing with Palin.
On his own he is not very compelling. I wonder how that makes him feel?

Like the President. Guess who wins the Super Bowl if both teams play
lousy football for almost 4 scoreless quarters, until the last second
when one team kicks a ugly, wobbly field goal that barely makes it
through the uprights...

HTH,
R