October 18, 2004

The Election Debates in Terms of Viewership

The viewership for the presidential debates this year was nothing short of phenomenal: Between all three debates more than 157 million people watched the presidential debates; throw in the vice presidential debate and you have more than 200 million viewers.

First Presidential Debate: 62.5 million (46.6 million for Bush v. Gore 2000 first debate)
Vice Presidential Debate: 43.6 million (28.5 million for Cheney v. Lieberman 2000 Debate)
Second Presidential Debate: 46.7 million--and this was a Friday night! (37.6 million for Bush v. Gore 2000 second debate)
Third Presidential Debate: 51 million (37.7 million for Bush v. Gore 2000 third debate)

Clearly people understand the importance, from a human perspective, of this election.

Posted by Clifton at October 18, 2004 07:15 AM
Comments

I am excited to see the numbers from the coming Main Event.

Posted by: justin at October 12, 2004 03:46 PM

ok...that is weird...why is my comment from 10/12 here...

Anywhoo...I hope this news translates to the largest voter turnout in a long while.

Posted by: justin at October 18, 2004 10:16 AM

justin:

I updated the previous blog entry and edited the opening comments significantly.

so it's a "new" old post.

sorry for the confusion.

Posted by: Clifton D. Healy at October 18, 2004 10:17 AM

No Worries, Just thought I was in a Twilight Zone Episode

Posted by: justin at October 18, 2004 12:03 PM