More Than 8 Million Tune In to CNN Democratic Debate February 1, 2008 3:27 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Cable TV News, Cable TV Ratings, CNN, Debates, Nielsen TV Ratings.trackback
CNN’s presentation of the California Democratic Debate between Senator’s Obama and Clinton drew a massive audience of 8.32 million viewers. Obliterating the prior cable news record for a debate (4.91 million, accomplished just last week, also by CNN).
The debate improved upon the networks performance from the Republican Debate by a whopping 108%, and is the second most-watched debate this cycle (ABC got 9.36 million from a Jan. 5 Democratic debate).
Truly astonishing numbers.
Source: Nielsen Media (via Media Bistro)
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Hillery won the dabate on every front except possibly Iraq. Also why do you guys have Barack on more than Clinton?? Also a commit on the Republican, If anyone thinks John Mccain is a concerative ,well thats lie saying a cow is a dog!! How about his health, he is getting old and starting to look a little feeble, plus the cancer he had, I know two that had the same and they both passed away in their eary 40’sI think this is something that voters should ask themselves !!Bill in Weber City, Va..
I think Barack talks a great game but I do not think he is op to the task of being President. Talk does not get the job done. August of North Babylon NY
Will one of you experts over at CNN please rewind the tape from the debate last night and review the answers that Obama and Clinton gave to the question regarding their plans for the economy.
Barack who was asked to respond first, faltered and then went on to throw out a few lame answers before switching to is “change” message and then proceeded to say that “he didn’t want to take up all the time so he would let Senator Clinton give her answer.”
Hillary of course was prepared and knowlegable about her plan and spoke eloquently and decisively that is before Campbell Brown rudely interrupted Hillary while she was answering a question about one of the key issues of the campaign.
Let’s talk about that and stop focusing on the silly stuff.