Nielsen Media Research reports that Obama's acceptance speech reached almost 40M people making it the most watched convention since Nielsen started counting in 1960. In 'o4 Kerry's acceptance speech drew 24.4M viewers, that same year Bush drew 27.5M (NYT). Michele Obama's Monday speech reached roughly half as many people as her husband's closer (Boston Herald).
-- Michael Olson
5:08 PM ET | 08-29-2008 | permalink
Ummm. . . . How many folks watched Hillary's speech this year? Or Bill's this year? Or both of Bill's nomination acceptance speeches? Huge oversight in terms of comparisons. Especially Hillary. Was it overlooked because it would ruin the lede if they drew as many or more . . . .?
If so many people are watching, then people are listening to this message of change.
I can't see one facet of this election that will be more marked by the eloquent and meaningful words of senator obama. If nothing else, he has attempted to give hope where in the past 8 years hope has been hard to come by.
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