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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan continue to draw smaller TV crowds than the 2008 Republican Party duo of John McCain and Sarah Palin. The grand finale of this year’s Republican National Convention featuring Presidential candidate Romney’s acceptance speech and an introduction by Clint Eastwood drew a total of 25.3 million viewers last night from 10-11 PM on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC. That was down 31% from the final hour of the 2008 GOP convention.
Fox News Channel once again dominated coverage with 9.1 million viewers, only 2% down from 2008. The declines were far steeper for the other networks: ABC (4.4 million, down 26%), NBC (3.9 million, down 56%), CBS (3.7 million, down 30%), CNN (2.3 million, down 52%) and MSNBC (1.9 million, down 25%).
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People have likely made up their minds, I bet the ratings for the DNC Convention also tank. I’m sue MSNBC is buying cases of “Chapstick” for their hosts, there’s going to be some lib butt kissing in North Carolina.
Interested to see what happens to the DNC’s ratings next week. If they are equally if not more down, I think that would be proof positive that Americans are sick of politics and politicians.
Mitt Romney is not quite prime time material, and sadly neither is Clint Eastwood.
CLINT PROVED HE’S JUST AN OLD FOOOOOL !!
This number, 9.1 million viewers, should scare everyone. We have whole propaganda outfit for a political party and ~100 million more less people have to subsidize it. The fee was $.13 or so a month. Now it is $2 or so. This phony news channel should go to a premium price model. You want it. You buy it. They can’t even do the news anymore. They tried a small amount of hard news in the very early morning and it as a bust. They went right back to selling the propaganda and junk information.
And people say well MSNBC is comparable. No it isn’t. MSNBC at least does professional information. You may not like hearing about the history of women’s health or about the stakeholders in some company, but at least it isn’t pure hostility, fear and hate like Fox Nation. They even had to turn off their comment section.
So why did MSNBC cut away every single time a minority was speaking? Not a mistake, it was every single one, and none of them were included on the MSNBC website as a ‘notable’ speech for the night. So there’s nothing notable about Artur Davis, one of the people who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008, and is now a republican?
They cut from Condi Rice’s speech to talk to the reporter on the floor, where his head was blocking the view of Rice on the stage. They don’t want to spoil their narrative that the GOP is a racist whites-only party.
Related question, why is every member of MSNBC’s convention coverage team white? Where’s the diversity?
I loved Clint! I totally got what he was doing and expressing. Lighten up!