Friday, August 29, 2008

Perspective

38 Million watched Obama last night, according to Nielsen.  

38 Million.  Damn.

That's more than watched the Oscars or the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics (but a small fraction of the 97 million who watched Super Bowl XLII).  It's almost double the number who watched Kerry's nomination speech in 2004.   I suspect that it's more an indication of the "enthusiasm gap" than anything else -- it's hard to imagine too many truly undecided voters taking the time to tune in.   Quite a night.

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