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From “The Swamp” blog:

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a huge magnet for TV viewers, attracting nearly as many eyeballs as Sen. Barack Obama did on the last day of the Democratic convention, according to Nielsen, the audience-measurement agency.

Here’s a thumbnail provided by Nielsen:

The Sarah Palin speech generated 37.2 million viewers, just 1.1 million viewers short of Barack Obama’s record-breaking speech on Day 4 of the Democratic Convention. The Palin speech was carried on only six networks while the Obama speech was carried on ten (including BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo).

Palin attracted a large female audience (19.5 million women, or 4.9 million more than Day 3 of the Democratic Convention).

Ratings for viewers 55+ (25.2) continue to be about ten times higher than for teens (2.2)
Day 3 for the GOP attracted more Hispanic viewers (1.4 million) than Day 3 of the Democratic Convention (1.2 million), even though Univision and Telemundo did not carry the speech.

The question now is: will Sen. John McCain be able to come anywhere close to Palin and Obama’s viewership tonight when he accepts the Republican presidential nomination here in St. Paul, Minn.?

Excellent question! What say you, Vote08 readers? Who gets better ratings in St. Paul? Make your prediction now!

ALSO:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A new Gallup poll suggests Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain is virtually unchanged since the GOP convention began.
The poll is based on interviews conducted Monday through yesterday. It shows the Democrat leading among respondents 49 to 42 percent. All but a few of the interviews were conducted before Sarah Palin gave her speech last night.
Obama led by 6 percentage points in a Gallup survey conducted last weekend, prior to the start of the Republican gathering.

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