The Five Hundred Thousand Man March
By Johnny Roosh
Despite McCain’s lack of hokey Styrofoam props…and big-name rock bands, Senator McCain’s convention acceptance speech garnered 500,000 more viewers than Senator Obama’s speech the week earlier, despite being shown on less networks.
I’m thinking they were all men.
In fairness to Obama, the GOP has two smokin’ hot -er I mean rather comely ladies on the ticket – Sarah Palin, and of course first lady Cindy McCain…
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Sorry. Sort of lost my train of thought.
…where was I?
Oh, here it is…
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain attracted a record 38.9 million television viewers to his acceptance speech last night, surpassing Democratic rival Barack Obama and McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin.
The total exceeded the 38.4 million who watched Obama accept the Democratic nomination in Denver on Aug. 28, Nielsen Media Research said today in a statement. Palin drew 37.2 million on Sept. 3 after three days of intense media coverage.
The last night of the Republican gathering in St. Paul, Minnesota, was seen in 28.3 million homes, breaking the record of the 27.7 million who watched Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. McCain’s ratings are the highest for a political convention since Nielsen began collecting data in 1960.
Combined, McCain and Palin, who is Alaska’s first-term governor, drew 76.2 million viewers, compared with the 62.4 million who tuned in to see Obama and running mate Joe Biden
The Republican nominee’s audience last night also exceeded the typical nightly viewing for the Beijing Olympics
No wonder Oprah doesn’t want Sarah Palin on her show. Her ratings would probably embarass Obama’s there too.
Nevermind.
Who gives a crap about Oprah.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I think the D’s are learning again the lesson they should have learned back in the 80’s.
This is a conservative country. A liberal candidate can’t get 50% of the vote. Without a strong 3rd party to siphon votes from the GOP, the more conservative candidate will win.
This has been true since the post-68 reforms that gave social activists a greater role in deciding the party’s nominee. The dems gained minority & youth voters while they lost the working class that had been the party’s backbone since the 2nd Roosevelt.
They may yet win the presidency this year — though I would be surprised if they did. I would be even more surprised if they won it by more than million votes.
September 6th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Are you claiming that the main strength of the McCain campaign is that he has good looking women around him? You conservatives really aren’t keen on him, are you?
September 6th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Are you claiming that the main strength of the McCain campaign is that he has good looking women around him? You conservatives really aren’t keen on him, are you?
nice try stooj
the “good looking women” are the frosting, not the cake
September 6th, 2008 at 9:13 am
No, I think Roosh is claiming that more people are interested in hearing what McCain has to say than what Obama has to say. A half million more, to be precise. Who can blame them? After 18 months of self-severing pander, just about anyone could write an Obambi speech. I’ve done it myself.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I am absolutely thrilled that so many people saw John McCain’s speech. They all got an opportunity to see a pathetic speech, delivered by a once-great American hero who has been reduced to a laughingstock by selling out to the extremist right wing of the GOP. They saw him promise “change” while repeating decades-old Republican talking points.
Heck, maybe we leftybloggers should all post the speech on our own blogs.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Kermit, I agree completely. Our elections are simply too long.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
As opposed to Obama promising “change” while repeating decades-old Democrat talking points. And that pathetic “four more years of the Bush administration” meme. Then He puts a cherry on top by tapping Joe Biden as his running mate. 35 years in the Senate. Now that speaks to change. Yessiree.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:34 am
My problem isn’t with the change Obama wants — it’s the folding money.
Har! I crack myself up!
September 6th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
“Selling out to the extremist right-wing of the Republican party.” You mean, say, lower taxes and a strong military are extremist? Wow. By that logic, Obama supporting higher taxes, just the opposite view, would make him the “extreme left wing” of the Democratic party. I`m sure you`ll post about that shortly.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:18 am
The thing most striking about the Republican women is not that they are so attractive, but that they are attractive while still being real women. I learned this in Mississippi, about Southern women, but it applies here as well. They are as tough and capable as any man, but still manage to look like a woman. Michelle Obama is just as attractive, but she doesn’t seem nearly as happy about being a woman. She wants to compete as a man does, with sharp tongue and a relentless grip on her talking points. Cindy and Sarah say the same things, but with a winning smile, and people listen.