Comments on: Neilsen: McCain’s TV audience 500K larger than Obama’s

By: lotus

lotus — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:42:52 +0000

That’s great, ducky. Your friend reminds me of one of my earliest childhood buddies, whom we lost to cancer a few weeks ago. She was a lifelong Republican (daughter of a state party chairman, in fact), but she wanted to live to (among other things) vote for Obama.

We’ll just have to hope there’re more like Janet, your friend, and our friend Evell than there are neocons and theocons voting against us.

I believe there will be.

By: duckweedpond

duckweedpond — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:22:41 +0000

One of my republican friends troubled herself to text me during the Democratic Convention. She was watching it, and her message was “the Democrats look Great!” We once could not mention politics to each other out of love for our friendship. She is sick of how the Republicans have behaved these past 8 years, and like Evell, thinks Obama is the diplomat we need.

By: neffable

neffable — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:36:58 +0000

Count me as another Democrat who watched both. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Researcher is correct about a large percentage of Republicans eschewing the Democratic convention.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:15:56 +0000

maybe.. we’ll see.

By: lotus

lotus — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:05:04 +0000

Bet you’re in numerous company there, Evell.

I have trouble listening to Palin too, both her sound and her sense (the sound problem equally her accent and timbre, the sense problem her nastiness).

One other note: Obama doesn’t have an Irish apostrophe.

By: Evell Snoats

Evell Snoats — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:48:28 +0000

I’m an independent who was last registered to vote Republican. I watched McCain’s but not Palin. Her voice makes me want to throw up. I did not watch O’bama.

I think I wouldn’t have watched McCain but wanted to give him a fair shake. I switched over to John Stewart shortly after McCain was finished. His analysis that McCain must have thought the guys from the Men In Black Movie came and waived their device which made you forget the last 8 years was right on.

I really wanted to see McCain do well because I used to like him. His torture stance, adoption of Rovian tactics and the catering to the evangelical republican base has made the O’bama vote easy for me easy. Plus O’bama is just plain smooth. We need a diplomat for a change.

By: Commentor

Commentor — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:34:45 +0000

This is anecdotal, but most democrats I’ve discussed the conventions with watched both, while most republicans I’ve discussed the conventions with did not watch the democratic convention.

By: Ben Cole

Ben Cole — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:58:26 +0000

I won’t waste a moment of my time watching anything connected to the GOP, but I’d guess a great number of viewers had been watching the Washington Redskins vs. NY Giants NFL season opener on NBC. As soon as the game was over, NBC cut to the convention. I cut to a book.

By: sailor

sailor — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:32:45 +0000

Me. too. NMC. But I watched on C-span, then channel- surfed talking heads.

By: NMC

NMC — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:32:36 +0000

I was a Democrat who watched Palin (and close to all of Wednesday and Thursday, both), to the extent that provides anecdotal evidence for Researcher’s theory.