{"id":3239,"date":"2008-09-05T19:20:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T00:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2008-09-05T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T00:20:28","slug":"the-five-hundred-thousand-man-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"The Five Hundred Thousand Man March"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking they were all men.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Sorry. Sort of lost my train of thought.<\/p>\n

…where was<\/em> I?<\/p>\n

Oh, here<\/em> it is…<\/p>\n

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg<\/a>) — 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

The Republican nominee’s audience last night also exceeded the typical nightly viewing for the Beijing Olympics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No wonder Oprah doesn’t want Sarah Palin on her show. Her ratings would probably embarass Obama’s there too.<\/p>\n

Nevermind.<\/p>\n

Who gives a crap about Oprah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}