The Sarah Palin Joe Biden vice presidential debates drew a massive 69.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen, beating the Barack Obama John McCain debate by 17.5 million.
Nielsen press release…..
Nielsen just released the ratings for the Biden/Palin debate (see press release below). Some interesting observations:
69.9 million people watched the debate, tying it for second place among all Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. (The second Bush/Clinton/Perot debate of 1992 also have 69.9 million. The all-time debate leader is the Carter/Reagan debate of 1980.)
This is 17.5 million viewers more than the McCain/Obama debate last Friday.
Prime Time?By: Ari Saturday October 4, 2008 11:08 am |
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Whoa.
That’s phenomenal — and it doesn’t even count YouTube viewings or website hits?
This election is really going to be something like we’ve never seen before.
I also don’t think it counts PBS or radio.