Comments on: Did Three Million People Not Turn Off Their TV Quickly Enough?

By: Bionic

Bionic — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:11:40 +0000

Yeah, Leon I think a lot of people felt like you and my daughter and niece.
They want to live in that world that Obama spoke about.

Energy independence in 10 years? Yeeeargh!

Have to say though, speaking with my brother, who incidentally is black, he is far more pessimistic. He doesn’t think people will actually vote for Obama and that if, by some miracle, he does get elected, he will survive to serve.

Sigh.

By: Leen

Leen — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:57:00 +0000

Good for your nieces. They stood up and cheered as well as the 84,ooo folks in that stadium (I was one of them). You could feel Invesco stadium shake when folks were stamping on the stadium floor during both Al Gore’s and Obama’s speeches. It was truly moving.

Old, young and in between. The crowd at Invesco represented the diversity in our country, the Republican convention did not.

By: Leen

Leen — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:49:24 +0000

I watched the last night of the RNC with five 20 somethings. They were amazed by what a snooze the convention was. How the cameras panned the crowd always going back to the 10 African Americans in the crowd. How most the folks at the convention were over 65 (few young folks). We were also surprised that few people picked up on the Vets who held signs up focusing on McCains lack of support for Vets. We were watching C-Spans coverage and the camera person went back to the Vets holding up protest signs several times. The MSM seems like they did not pick up on this. Anyone see any reports about the Vets protesting against McCain during McCain’s speech.

I watched every night. It was so boring yet I continued to watch in shock. One of the nights I did get these 20 somethings to switch back and forth between Ron Paul and the RNC. They were all amazed by what Ron Paul and Jessie Ventura had to say.

By: Bionic

Bionic — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:22:56 +0000

I dunno. I tuned in to watch just so that I could compare and contrast. We yelled every time they showed a person of color rather than drink, ya know. It even got to be fun when we got to recognize each of them too.

We liked seeing the people yawning or picking their teeth (figuratively speaking). They sure didn’t look like the folks at Obama’s speech.

After Obama’s speech I felt like I had seen something historic. I felt that way when I saw Jon Stewart on Crossfire too.

With McCain I wondered why they had a big green background on him and then we figured out the image was one of his houses. We spent some time discussing that. While he was talking. Laughed my ass off when I found out about the school today. I do you explain that and expect to be taken seriously.

I’ll bet an awful lot of people tuned in to Palin to see just who she was. I think Babs said it best. Starts with b and rhymes with witch.

That poor baby. Let him go to bed. Tell us about him but please we’d understand a loud arena is no place for such a little one.

Last week I was absolutely surprised when my daughter and my niece (21 and 30) told me they had watched Obama’s speech. We’re in Canada so your politics aren’t quite so much on their minds (my daughter is bemused by my long term interest). They said they stood up and cheered, it made them so excited.

Anyone think McCain managed that? Heck, even in the arena there were plenty of awkward moments when the crowd didn’t realize they were supposed to cheer and they’re the rabid few and faithful.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:13:08 +0000

great minds think alike

you seem to think like me

that might not be healthy

jus sayin, is all …

(wink)

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:08:56 +0000

wanna bet the people who hosted parties during Obama’s speech didn’t have quite so much leftover rigatoni ???

do the math

if Obama had 100,000 parties, and the average number of attendees was 21, you would be talking about, um, well, an awful lot of uncounted viewers*

(wink)

*2 million or so, actually

By: rosalind

rosalind — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:08:39 +0000

and they say kids aren’t interested in politics. from a local write-up on the walter reed middle school photo mix-up:

It turns out plenty of Reed Middle School youngsters were watching, however.

Eduardo Morales, 11, was tuned in. “There was nothing else on TV last night,” he said.

Brian Perez, 14, let out a yell when he saw the picture of the school’s two-story concrete main building looming behind McCain.

“He was yelling, ‘Walter Reed is on TV!’ It was cool,” said his brother, James Perez, 13.

School officials were not amused, however.

By: MadDog

MadDog — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:29:39 +0000

If McSame had given the speech of his life (he didn’t), the speech of his generation (he couldn’t), the speech for the ages (Snort! Yeah, right!), then those 38.9 million viewers might have been something to crow about.

Instead, to quote Abraham Lincoln:

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”

Or to quote Samuel Johnson:

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”

Tuning in and finding out that one is not even remotely interested in what’s showing is perhaps more important than finding something one likes.

38.9 million viewers who yawned and went to bed. That was my take on it.

By: klynn

klynn — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:08:34 +0000

Now, did the stats take into account all the packed Obama house parties and the empty, near empty McCain parties?

By: cricket

cricket — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:31:50 +0000

Did anyone count all the people that watched Obama’s speech over the Internet? Or do those people not get counted, like the people who have only cell phones and no land line phone do not get polled?