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An equally crude piece of a... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Robespierre the Incorruptible | September 1, 2004 5:28 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
An equally crude piece of analysis:
Look at the numbers for the liberal outlets (CNN, MSNBC) and the conservative FoxNews: the liberal outlets lost a million viewers while Fox gained 2 million -- could this be an indication of greater interest among the GOP base than the Dem base?
Like I said, crude analysis. But a fair question, I think.
1. Posted by Robespierre the Incorruptible | September 1, 2004 5:28 AM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 05:28
2. Posted by Marc | September 1, 2004 7:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sounds like a bunch of undecideds tuned in and they are leaning right.
Or moonbats expecting a train wreck.
2. Posted by Marc | September 1, 2004 7:45 AM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 07:45
3. Posted by Spoons | September 1, 2004 8:06 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Or, it just means your average Democrat has about a 30-second attention span.
Which, come to think of it, would explain a lot.
3. Posted by Spoons | September 1, 2004 8:06 AM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 08:06
4. Posted by Eric Lindholm | September 1, 2004 8:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
McCain, Giuliani and Schwarzenegger were excellent, high-profile choices to kick things off. By comparison, I remember the DNC early speeches were given by....um....
Damn...I can't recall.
4. Posted by Eric Lindholm | September 1, 2004 8:46 AM |
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5. Posted by Sharp as a Marble | September 1, 2004 10:30 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Maybe I'm missing something by not watching. Conventions remind me of circuses only the clowns aren't as funny.
5. Posted by Sharp as a Marble | September 1, 2004 10:30 AM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 10:30
6. Posted by Peter | September 1, 2004 11:00 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Paul, it might just be something even simpler, needing no analysis at all.
Go back and look at the photos of the delegates Party functionaries and speakers of the DNC.
Do the same with the RNC. Notice the facial expressions.
People don't LIKE to be around bitter, angry folks, even over the TV.
6. Posted by Peter | September 1, 2004 11:00 AM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 11:00
7. Posted by Green | September 1, 2004 11:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wasn't the DNC's first night also shown on the networks? That could have sucked away some viewers. I think you'd need to compare RNC Mon to DNC Tues and/or vice versa.
7. Posted by Green | September 1, 2004 11:53 AM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 11:53
8. Posted by thedragonflies | September 1, 2004 12:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The good news is that more are watching the Reps than the Dems. The bad news is I am watching Kerry address the vets, and he looks good, sincere, reasonable, human. What happened to the pompous poseur? Maybe he got the shit kicked out of him, got some humility, and is losing his arrogant pompousness. Not good news, to me.
8. Posted by thedragonflies | September 1, 2004 12:19 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 12:19
9. Posted by thedragonflies | September 1, 2004 12:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The good news is that more are watching the Reps than the Dems. The bad news is I am watching Kerry address the vets, and he looks good, sincere, reasonable, human. What happened to the pompous poseur? Maybe he got the shit kicked out of him, got some humility, and is losing his arrogant pompousness. Not good news, to me.
9. Posted by thedragonflies | September 1, 2004 12:20 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 12:20
10. Posted by Titan | September 1, 2004 12:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
thedragonflies, Kerry is "sincere, reasonable, human"? He isn't capable of those things. I'm watching him too, and he seems like the same old Kerry to me.
10. Posted by Titan | September 1, 2004 12:45 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 12:45
11. Posted by nitroburn | September 1, 2004 12:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Know thy enemy.
11. Posted by nitroburn | September 1, 2004 12:46 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 12:46
12. Posted by Paul | September 1, 2004 1:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I rewound my Tivo and Kerry looks pathetic.
"sincere, reasonable, human" ain't what I saw.
All he did was claim we were all going to die if Bush stayed in office.
12. Posted by Paul | September 1, 2004 1:06 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 13:06
13. Posted by McGehee | September 1, 2004 5:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I overheard Kerry's Legion speech today, not by choice. He sounded like a funeral director. That man could sing "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" and sound like he was giving condolences to the mourning widow who just discovered that her late husband had stopped paying his life insurance premium without telling her.
13. Posted by McGehee | September 1, 2004 5:35 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 17:35
14. Posted by thedragonflies | September 1, 2004 7:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I may have been too pessimistic. Indeed, as his speech continued, he got into giving some of his old stump speech rhetoric and reverted to form, pompous and smirky. The first few minutes he seemed to be talking more candidly, and, leaving the content out of it and just looking at it for tone, he seemed pretty normal. My fear is that he might be able to get into a conversational mode in the debates and not live down to my expectations of pompous arrogant blatherer.
14. Posted by thedragonflies | September 1, 2004 7:23 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 19:23
15. Posted by Beck | September 1, 2004 9:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Green is correct. The networks carried night 1 of the DNC but not night 2. The referse holds for the RNC--night 1 was not carried, but night 2 was.
Presumably, more than 1 million people were watching the DNC coverage on ABC, NBC, and CBS, especially if nearly 5 million were watching the cable news channels, so it's likely the DNC day 1 had more watchers than RNC day 1. Likely the reverse will hold for Day 2.
This stinks, because the dems had 4 (relatively) good speakers on their Day 1, and only 1 especially good speaker on Day 2. the RNC however had two of its biggest guns on Monday, but only one really big gun on Tuesday.
15. Posted by Beck | September 1, 2004 9:36 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 21:36