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McCain defeats Obama
At least in the TV ratings game. According to preliminary numbers from Nielsen Media Research, McCain drew higher ratings for his acceptance speech last night than Obama did for his last Thursday. TV Week reports:
Across all broadcast networks Thursday, Sen. McCain’s speech ended the night with a 4.8 rating/7 share, compared to Sen. Obama’s 4.3/7 average, according to overnight numbers from metered households in 55 U.S. markets measured by Nielsen. These ratings are preliminary, however, and are subject to change.
Topic: Campaign 2008, WorldMagBlog
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Of course, one must put the “afterglow” of both the Republican and the Democratic conventions in context of the bigger picture. Fact is, most Americans don’t pay any mind to the conventions. I don’t know a single one of my co-workers who watched either convention. Most of them expressed disgust over them and think they’re a waste of cable bandwidth. As a CSPAN junkie, of course I watched both conventions, but I don’t know a single family member, friend, or co-worker that did.
Look, both sides claim a “bounce” coming out of their convention and like to build it up with an air of inevitability. Obama’s side did it after their convention, and now McCain’s side is doing it.
But the great majority of Americans don’t pay serious attention or make up their mind until October.
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Mickey, please more careful with your headlines in the future. You just about gave Anlir a coronary.
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Whoo-hoo!
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John McCain is a Celebrity POW
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Vote for John McCain: America’s celebrity POW!
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We’re planning on doing that, Anlir, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.
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Here is a suggestion. Lets implement Charlie Rangle’s suggestion and bring back the draft. That way Anlir and Lumpy can experience 1st hand what its like to be a POW?
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John McCain’s campaign got a rebuke today from the school the RNC oddly used as a backdrop during McInsane’s speech.
“It has been brought to the school’s attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Republican National Convention. Permission to use the front of our school for the Republican National Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school’s picture an endorsement of any political party or view.”
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Joe B-
I strongly support instituting the draft.
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McCain said he does too btw.
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Here is McCain agreeing we need a draft.
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Joe B. – 7
Would they be able to get through boot camp?
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Joe B. (#7),
Anlir would pee in his panties at just the thought of that.
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And I’m sure Palin will support it, too. There’s just not enough people joining the military to start another war for Israel, and we can’t have that.
And guess what, all you self proclaimed “conservative feminists”? This time around, when McCain and Palin bring back the draft, it’s gonna include women. Your daughters. How ya like them apples?
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Won’t you be glad you joined Palin’s campaign to “shatter those glass ceilings” when Heather goes marching off to war?
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To Night Train
You might be on to something.
The Bush apologists are euphoric over the “surge”, an increase of soldiers to Iraq of 20,000 – 30,000 troops.
Imaging what the draft would do.
Bush is already expanding the Afghanistan debacle into Pakistan and McCain is almost certain to bomb Iran so a draft may be required.
And as Israel and its’ lobby says to the U.S.; onward Christian soldiers.
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Leaving aside Michael Martin’s personal slur (you CCR’s are all the same!), a draft is fine with me. Of course, we’re also gonna have to get rid of that immoral DADT for me to serve. But I’m game.
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Didn’t a sensible person ask for a limit on the number of McCain Palin posts?
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Just for everyone’s information.
The Navy has “Boot Camp.”
The Army has “Basic Training.”
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CCR’s are all the same
Another example of an untruth told by Anlir.
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Not much to celebrate. You would expect the guy going second to have a bigger TV audience. People who missed Obama’s speech likely saw media coverage and so McCain’s up coming speech was given a higher profile for them. Obama will have a larger audience for online replays.
And while this MIGHT sound a little elitist, I think Democrats are more inclined to watch the GOP convention than Republicans are to watch the DNC. We are just on average bigger consumers of news media.
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WOW Anlir, I’m a little shocked. 40 million people watched it, out of a population of 301 million, only half of which vote, and you don’t know any of them? You must live a very sheltered life. Do you get out at all?
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FLASH: MCCAIN SPEECH BEATS OBAMA BY 500,000 VIEWS…</b.
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Now here’s a real WOW.
The government has decided that it is going take over (bail out) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The cost will certainly be tens of billions of taxpayer money, but, since they insure $5 trillion in loans, perhaps half a million of which are in default and many millions of which are under water, I can see this eventually costing maybe $250 billion. Simply a huge cost for the uttter financial and regulatory recklessness of the last 8 years. We have become little better than a third rate economic power, depndent on our creditors for our economic survival.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/06fannie.html
Can anyone spell D-E-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N?
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I would have expected more views for the week after everyone gets home from vacation. Obama nearly matched it during that last week wen people are off camping and traveling.
I’m glad McSame had more views. The more people see him, the less likely they are to vote for him.
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How insulting.
Republicans Lack Heart
Ann and Nancy Wilson are angry at the Republican Party and have fired off a cease and desist letter to the McCain/Palin campaign.
Specifically, the Heart women are upset that the GOP has used their classic “Barracuda” as a theme song for Sarah Palin. TMZ obtained a statement from Heart’s rep, who says “The Republican campaign did not ask for permission to use the song, nor would they have been granted that permission.”
The statement goes on: “We have asked the Republican campaign publicly not to use our music. We hope our wishes will be honored.”
I have this CD, but I’m going to buy another copy to support Heart in this matter.
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Although with all the lies and misrepresentations made by Sarah and John Bush this week, the lyrics fit the Campaign to a tee.
“If the real thing don’t do the trick
No, you better make up something quick
You gonna burn burn burn burn it to the wick
Ooooooohhhh, barra barracuda.”
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The more people see him, the less likely they are to vote for him.
Hmm, is that why he got a 7-point jump in the polls after he gave his acceptance speech?
Whoo-hoo!
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I call on Outkast to cease his personal attacks on me.
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Anlir’s sounding like a broken record again. (BTW, Anlir, calling someone a “broken record” is not a personal attack. It’s a reference to the days when we used to play vinyl LP records, which skipped – or repeated themselves over and over again – when scratched. If you have CDs maybe you can relate?)
As a couple posters have already told you, you really need to grow thicker skin. Or else “get out of the kitchen.”
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I call on Outkast to stop his personal attacks on me.
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I watched it! Viewership isn’t a vote.
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Adding to my earlier point about Obama having more online play back, you can find another 700K+ views of his speech on Youtube alone. John McCain, so far I see about 14K but he’s had less time.
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. . . skip . . . skip . . . skip . . . skip . . .
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Let see … by this calculus, the season finales of M*A*S*H*, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, Magnum PI (!), Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, the Cosby Show and All in the Family beat out both of these entertainers in ratings. I guess it’s some kind of consolation to have barely edged out the last episodes of Family Ties and Home Improvement. But don’t even try to compare to the Super Bowl.
Gotta wonder what this means.
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Strong speeches, big build up — sounds like a good case for TV. And eyeballs are not votes. They are at best, prospects. So the real Q is how much of the audience did the speaker convert? What’s the yield?
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inTrade has McCain up 2 points today to a 42.3% chance at winning.
Obama is down to 57.3% today.
inTrade is an investors market where you can buy shares on future events. It had EVERY house and senate race correct in the 2006 election! Way better than polls or pundits.
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a great John Bush ad
Ouch!
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Reviewing the speech, I find myself puzzled.
What was the import and intent of using the Walter Reed Middle School as the backdrop during part of McCain’s speech????
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It rather does amaze me, Anlir, that you know no one who watched the conventions. I know several people and actually watched Sara Palin’s speech with some friends. It must be difficult to be so interested in them and have no one who also watched, who you can share the experience with. I guess it is good to have blogs for that.
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Musing
It seems the McCain campaign messed up on the middle school image — they meant to use Walter Reed Medical. Oopsie daisy!
On the topic: I find it encouraging that some many Americans are taking enough of an interest to actually watch the convention speeches. It bodes well for turnout in the fall.
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According to Gallup its 48-44 for Obama down from 49-42. not much of a bounce. The polls haven’t deviated from the margin of error.
Luke brings up a salient point — young people don’t subject themselves to TV schedules; they’ll watch it on youtube or other sites or on TiVo etc. Similarly, polls conducted by telephone are skewed to an older demographic – polls don’t reach many people under 30 who don’t bother getting a land line.
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And that’s not all
they have been told to cease and desist using songs from Heart, Van Halen, and Jackson Brown and Mike Meyers asked them not to use the movie clip with the “we’re not worthy”. For a political party that supports intellectual property and patent rights they sure don’t respect these laws in practice.
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Ratings are ratings but I’d suspect the airing of an NFL game immediately prior to the speech didn’t hurt.
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coyote blue post 41,
are you seriously trying to tell me that at a key introductiion of McCain to the American people in a speeech which was watched by perhaps 50 million people, the McCain campaign did not have enough organizational capability to ensure the McCain campaign did not do enough proof checking of their background film to catch that Walter Reed Middle School is not Walter Reed medical Center.
And this is the team which wants to run our country????
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coyote blue post 41,
I am sorry, but I keep having these images of such an administration targeting our strategic missle on Moscow, Maine instead of Moscow, Russia.
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So isn’t this the team which also believes that Iraq has a border with Pakistan:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=32a_1216654321
Perhaps the McCain campaign needs to establish a department of geographic plausibility?
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Obama’s reply to McCain
“when John McCain says in his speech that he wants to reduce the rancor in Washington … I’m thinking, ‘Did you pay attention to the last two days of your convention?’” “”I mean, What? Were you not, were you not watching?Did they not get the memo?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/obama-finds-cur.html
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Pssst . . . HRW . . . the GOP convention was not held in Washington, but in Denver.
Campaigning for the U.Sl Presidency is different from working in Washington D.C. once someone gets in office. You should study U.S. politics a little more.
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The Pit Bull in Lipstick won’t be happy til she’s got a big pack of girls just like her – from good ole conservative churches where pastors pray for our men and women fighting for our freedoms!
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John McCain has spent a quarter of a century ensconced in Washington DC and the halls of power. For him to say he’s running against “Washington” is most laughable indeed. He was for “Washington” before he was against it! This is a man who voted over 90% of the time with President Bush and the Republicans. I don’t think it’s gonna wash with the American people.
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____________________________________Obama made the big gaffe “My Muslim Faith”
“My Muslim Faith”
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So when a Republican leaves Washington the rancour and bitter attacks etc is allowed? I didn’t know there was geographic limitation to McCain’s call for polite discourse.
BTW the GOP convention was held in St. Paul. The Democratic convention was held in Denver. Perhaps you need to study US politics and geography more often.
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Outkast- “Pssst . . . HRW . . . the GOP convention was not held in Washington, but in Denver.”
And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.
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“polls don’t reach many people under 30 who don’t bother getting a land line.”
or who have caller ID, unless they are really, really old and lonely………….
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