Bush Wins! Bush Wins! .... The TV Ratings

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Bush Wins! Bush Wins! .... The TV Ratings

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Bush and the Republicans and Fox News - all winners!

Or is this proof positive that us conservatives are a bunch of fat ass couch potatos while the liberal lefties are too busy staging protests to watch TV?

We report... you decide!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... vention_dc
Bush, Republicans Outpoll Kerry, Democrats on TV

9/4/2004

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Although the election is not until November, President Bush and his Republican party have bested John Kerry and the Democrats as far as U.S. television ratings are concerned, research showed on Friday

Nearly 28 million Americans -- more than a quarter of them watching cable's Fox News Channel alone -- tuned in to see Bush accept his nomination for a second term at the climax of the Republican National Convention on Thursday, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Bush's national TV audience topped Kerry's speech at the Democratic convention in July by just over 3 million viewers, among those watching Big Three commercial networks ABC, CBS and NBC and the three leading cable news outlets -- Fox, CNN and MSNBC.

The Republican meeting as a whole also drew bigger audiences than the Democrats, averaging 22.6 million viewers over four nights at New York City's Madison Square Garden, compared with 20.4 million mustered by Kerry and his party in Boston in July.

Meanwhile, Fox News continued its unprecedented ratings dominance over this year's Republican convention, edging out not only its cable rivals but each of the major broadcast networks by drawing 7.3 million viewers to its telecast of Bush's address.

That marked the third straight night Fox has surpassed its larger broadcast rivals in the first case of a cable channel attracting more viewers than any of the three major networks during a scheduled event covered by all of them, experts said.

NBC ranked second on Thursday with 5.9 million viewers, followed by ABC with 5.1 million and CBS with 5 million. CNN finished fifth with 2.6 million viewers while NBC's sister cable channel, MSNBC, brought up the rear with 1.7 million.

Fox benefited from the fact that its audience is "ideologically very much aligned with the Republican Party" and apparently turned out in larger numbers to watch the GOP convention than the Democrats, said independent network news analyst Andrew Tyndall.

By comparison, Fox News averaged 2.6 million viewers during Kerry's speech in July, about 1 million fewer than tuned in on CNN, widely perceived as more liberal-leaning.

Fox News has insisted its performance during the Republican convention speaks for itself and demonstrates that it is capable of attracting a mass audience. But Tyndall added: "If they really want to say that they can go head-to-head with the major networks, they've got to to it on a nightly basis, not a special-occasion basis."

For both conventions this year, ABC, CBS and NBC limited their prime-time commercial coverage to just an hour a night for three nights, skipping one evening of both events altogether. The three cable outlets offered gavel-to-gavel coverage. Reuters/VNU
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ratings along with polls are nothing but crap. They call 200 house holds in some states and then scale it up. Same thing with polls.

I can poll everyone I know from work, friends or in the National Guard, and I can tell you 90% wont reelect bush. So say 90% of 300 people, scale it up how they do normal polls and the nelson rateings. And you have Kerry winning huge over bush.

All it is, is selective calling certin households and guessing off of the percentage of the answers. AKA misleading.

I mean really, how else had shows like Full house, Reality_show_109 stay on the air when The Family guy, and other great shows get cancled? They sure didnt call the 24.5 million viewers they said watched the shows.

Not a attack the GOP weekend of mud slinging tho. It goes for all.

Asides, Im sure the GOP had more people watch. I mean it was a good comedy show on Bushing saying how hell do all these things, when he didnt do shit the past 4 years. If he cant do ANY of it with a REP controlled congress, then why should we believe he can do it in another 4 years.
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I watched Bush's speech, that doesn't mean I'm going to vote for him.
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Thess wrote:I watched Bush's speech, that doesn't mean I'm going to vote for him.
You could make it through? Ugg, I just get ill. Tried watching with no sound, that didn't help - sound with no picture didn't work either. In the end, I turned it off completely and consider myself the wiser for it.

Actually, I kind of feel bad about that. Many have pointed out the increasing polarization between individuals of political factions in the last 40 years (which is kind of odd considering the two major parties' seem to be growing more similar). Not being able to discuss issues and change minds is a bad thing, imo.

But I just can't watch W. He's unholy.
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I suspect it's a little of both, Met :)

I don't usually pay much attention to liberal pavement-pounding, but here's some pics of the protest. Ouch. And to think the other day I accused the libs of being too disorganized to win anything.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/azad_s ... 8#t1321668
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I watched on the liberal slanted CNN so I could see if they were up to any shenanigans. CNN did an OK job and it was great that they kept saying how the balloons were dropping fast and on time compared to the comedy that ensued at the Democratic convention regarding the balloons and the foul mouthed democrats.

45 min speech for Kerry 30 min balloon dropping = 75 mins
60 min speech for Bush 15 min balloon dropping = 75

The key moments while potential voters reviewed what they had just watched were filled with curse words and anger after Kerry's speech while the Republicans had the stage and balloons well planned out.

The balloon factor clearly favors Bush!
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I watched and laughed as the whitest woman I have ever in my life talk all about how excited she was that the african american community is so firmly behind Bush that they are going to lead him to victory in November.

It was hilarious, yet at the same time summed up how completely out of touch the Republican party is with America. I mean, that woman actually belived what she was saying. I thought she was going to have an orgasam because she was soooo excited that blacks had fiinally come 'round where they belong!
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Fairweather Pure wrote:I watched and laughed as the whitest woman I have ever in my life talk all about how excited she was that the african american community is so firmly behind Bush that they are going to lead him to victory in November.

It was hilarious, yet at the same time summed up how completely out of touch the Republican party is with America. I mean, that woman actually belived what she was saying. I thought she was going to have an orgasam because she was soooo excited that blacks had fiinally come 'round where they belong!
That entire 7% man, minorities hate kerry!
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of course it got better ratings, watching people get thrown out is funny!
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