OlderJohn McCain Beats Barack Obama
In the race for ratings, John McCain has beat Barack Obama for viewership during their respective convention speeches.
According to Nielsen, McCain drew 38.9 million viewers for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention while Obama only drew 38.4 million viewers for his acceptance speech. 38.9 million viewers ranks as the highest rated convention in history.
In related news, Oprah Winfrey has stated that she is more than willing to interview Sarah Palin after the campaign is over.
“The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue,” Oprah says. “There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”
Now onto the race for the White House!
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In front of McCain’s largest listening audience, after being interrupted by a Code Pink protester, McCain had a very good ad lib:
“Americans want us to stop yelling at each other O.K”
Ad libs are very revealing about someone’s true nature and this off the cuff moment, in very few words, showed a lot of Americans that McCain has a very non-partisan person and that’s how he would lead this country.
In front of McCain’s largest listening audience, after being interrupted by a Code Pink protester, McCain had a very good ad lib:
“Americans want us to stop yelling at each other O.K”
Ad libs are very revealing about someone’s true nature and this off the cuff moment, in very few words, showed a lot of Americans that McCain is a very non-partisan person and that’s how he would lead this country.
Maybe Oprah doesn’t want to talk to her. I wouldn’t.
It’s her show, not the nightly news.
The Democratic Party trying to connect McCain to Bush is getting old and lame.
There is a new book coming out by Bob Woodward that during the discussion on the Iraq surge, McCain is quoted as saying abou the Bush Administration that it “all f**king spin with them”.
Couple that with all of the instances McCain’ went against the GOP & Bush = a tired, untrue talking point.
Lola, what are you talking about? You have had a conservative in the White House for the last eight years. Republicans are absolutely batsh*t. You act like you are going to take over Washington. HELLO!! Your guy is in office now and he’s the one who screwed it up with McCain’s blessing. McCain didn’t want to pick Palin, he wanted to pick Lieberman. If he can’t stand up to the far right wack jobs in the party, how in the heck is going to fix anything. Highest unemployment rate in five years. Record foreclosures. Over 80,000 jobs lost last month. Sinking stock market. Record budget deficits. Over $10 billion spent in Iraq each month. Our military is overburdened and we have an administration that doesn’t support them. Who voted against the GI bill? McCain. We’ve lost our stature in the world. This is the mess created by the Republicans and this is what we are fighting against.
please….. not another bush.
the whole world would be better off with OBAMA.
the sarah palin drama was the only reason his rating were higher.
IMHO.
Also regarding the ratings. It should be noted that Obama had four extra networks showing his speech and not Palin’s (not sure about McCain).
The four networks that showed Obama and not Sarah were: BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo.
Why would Oprah have a woman on her show who thinks that victims of rape and incest should bear the children of rapists? Oprah was a victim of rape as a child and she must find Palin a scary proposition. And Jared, you have proven that you are not biased, so perhaps now you can avoid politics and post about celebs.
Oprah has said years ago she would not do a show on politics or race relations. She has not had Barack on her show since he announced his run for the presidency. Yes, she has gone to rallies but she has not had him on her show. She has not had Hillary or McCain on there so why would she ask Palin to be on her show especially when she is not running for president. What you think Oprah owe it to her because she is a woman???? Please the Republicans are trying to make noise about a no name woman and trying to push her on the American public. Well if she is all that along with McCain then let the polls speak on Nov. 4, otherwise drop it.
This is why it is called the “OPRAH” show and she owns it and therefore she can do and have who the hell she want on her show. If she wanted to parade Barack on her show daily that is her right. She is the owner of the show.
completely agree with ‘alh’ ….couldn’t have said it better.
It’s nice to know that the American people are paying attention, but hopefully they will investigate the positions of the candidates and not vote based on whether someone is a hockey mom or a POW. It’s funny that last week all the Republicans could talk about was celebrity and rhetoric, yet this week they have described Sarah Palin as a rock star and praised her ability to give a speech. Pot meet kettle. Methinks that when moderate Americans realize how radical her positions are, they will not be as enthusiastid. Do your research people.
#6: Yes, they did but in the end what they saw was the big difference between the two presidential candidates. They saw how one loves his country that much. He won a lot more hearts than anyone had expected.
While the Dems are saying people should unite for their party, the Repubs are saying let’s unite for the country. That resonated more with the viewers.
And the more libs continue to trash Sarah Palin, the more people rally to her side for support. Look at the reports…even the foreign press loves her! She’s more famous than Obama now abroad. (Isn’t that what you guys keep harping on? Nobody likes us outside of the US? Now they are saying why couldn’t they have their own Sarah! LOL!)
The Do Nothing Democrat Congress and an Obama White House would be a disaster in the making.
The Democratic Congress has an approval rating in the single digits.
Before the Democratic Congress took control in 2006 gas prices were around 2 dollars a galllon, since they’ve been in power it’s doubled and yet they do nothing!
Obama & the Democratic Congress is a loser team.
He sucked , now I know I’m going for Obama, this old dude can only talk about himself in vietnan, He has nothing to offer this country, he is just like Bush or even worse.
I could care less who Oprah has on her show and I really don’t think McCain and Sarah do either.
I’m a registered Democrat, have been all my life coming from working class people. I listened to speeches, and rhetoric throughout this campaign to date, with an open and unbiased mind, having always felt that i would vote the issues regardless of my party afilation. Now i am certain of the candidate who most speaks to my main issues; cost of fuel, remembering we are volunerable to terrorists attacks (9/11), economy and lack of jobs, health insurance and/or lower healthcare costs for all. This year i intend to vote for the Mavericks; the two who will buck party to “serve the people” and have done so through out their careers. This is one democrat who will vote Republican, mostly because i care about our nation Under God.
I heart Sarah Palin. McCain loves his country. Obama loves himself.
Wow, the lack of grace of the Obama supporters is really sad.
Obama’s young supporters like Kristy show such a lack of class and ageism when they talk about McCain.
#23: I think you are mistaken…it was the Clinton machine that did that. They even circulated that picture of him in Muslim garb…did you see that one? McCain was the one that refused to go down that road. Do some research…I think he even fired somebody for emphasizing the middle name Hussein when he specifically ordered them to keep it clean and cause Obama didn’t want it brutted about.
Real tita’s is correct. The Clinton campaign fired the guy after it was revealed….I think his name was Mark Penn, not sure though.
But the whole Muslim connection is from the primaries and the Clinton camp.
Um Sheryl you are doing nothing but spilling Republican made want it to be true lies! The price of gas was well above 2.50 in 2006 and reached almost $4 a gallon when Katrina hit. Since then we have not been below $3.25 a gallon. Now, as far as the Democrats being in Congress how much do you think can be done when you have a Republican president who vetos everything the Democrat’s have tried to get passed. The Republicans have been in control for 20 years and what have they done, absolutely nothing.
Oh wait yes the Republicans have done something. We have are trillions of dollars in debt, we pretty much are owned by China & Saudi, they allow fraudalent loan packages to be sold to outside investors which therefore caused the mortgage crises, they allowed big oil Exxon/Mobile etc. to break in record profits off the back of the working class with no questions (but pretended to ask questions once the American people complained but it did no good), allowed big companies to take huge tax breaks but yet these companies shipped jobs overseas, took away or cut back on their workers medical insurance, as prices went up but cost lowered for corporate America they cut back on giving raises to the working class but the CEO’s always received multi-million dollar bonuses along with their 6-7 figure salaries and I won’t even go into the Iraq war and the recent promise from your Republican president of $1 billion dollars to Georgia. So, yes thank you for reminding me way more so I need to rally for Obama to many others why we do need real change! Anybody outside of a Republican is change.
#43
That’s true. College kids are so fanatic about Obama and for all the wrong reasons (he looks cool in shades, isn’t he a snappy dresser? and Ben Afleck likes him!). It’s scary to think that there’s a possibility our next president could be chosen by a crowd still young enough to be on their parents’ health plans.
16 CZLF @ 09/05/2008 at 5:15 pm
… I cannot believe in this day and age (and after something has clearly been decided… ROE v. WADE) that someone would question a woman’s choice/right to have an abortion!!
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Surely you know that there is always an opposite, you know, up and down, hot and cold, man and woman, life and death, etc.
There is also always an opposing view. Those for gun control, those against, those who are pro-life and those who are pro-choice, etc.
You can argue forever, and not agree. Both sides think the opponents are bad. Palin is pro-life. That doesn’t make her bad, but she is also no saint. She is just pro-life.
In fact, when some speaker at a McCain rally used Barack’s middle name McCain denounced the man and said he is not welcome in his campaign.
McCain wants nothing to do with this stupid slur and do most Republicans. Why?
Because they know it’s stupid lie. They know Barack Obama is a Christian.
15 Grace @ 09/05/2008 at 5:14 pm
40 million saw Sarah Palin. Oprah is afraid of Palin. Oprah has always said that women can accomplish anything they want in life. Sarah Palin accomplished something huge and Oprah refuses to interview her. Oprah is a hyprocrite.
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Obviously Oprah isn’t sure what to do. She backs BHO but at the same time she knows that women would like to know more about Sarah Palin, so she solves it by saying …after the election.
Actually, I think women would welcome it if she interviews SP before the election, but hey, it’s her show.
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