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Record numbers of viewers tune in to the GOP convention
Los Angeles Times ^ | Sept. 6, 2008 | Kate Linthicum

Posted on 09/06/2008 12:35:26 PM PDT by Clairity

Nielsen reports that the Republicans averaged 34.5 million viewers over three nights, making the event the most-watched convention since the company began keeping records.

...the Democrats averaged 30.2 million viewers over four nights.

White viewers flocked to their TVs for McCain's speech (32.2 million versus 27 million for Obama).

But among African Americans, the reverse was true. About 7.5 million African Americans watched Obama's speech last week, whereas 3.1 million tuned in for McCain's.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; elections; gopconvention; mccain; mccainpalin; palin; rncconvention; worldrecord
Actually I think it's pretty amazing and it's not good news for Obama, that he only got twice as many Black viewers than McCain.
1 posted on 09/06/2008 12:35:26 PM PDT by Clairity
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"Although I'm reluctant to predict what McCain will do, I know what he should do. I can unequivocally say that by putting Sarah Palin on the GOP presidential ticket, Johnny Mac would put the Democrats in check-mate and give US conservatives and every other American a reason to hope." -Justin Quinn, June 10, 2008
http://usconservatives.about.com/b/2008/06/10/draft-sarah-palin.htm

Sarah Palin's first speech after accepting VP role: part 1:
(not the RNC Convention speech)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPpfYOe92c

Sarah Palin's first speech after accepting VP role: part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt_4zW_HF0A

'Newt Gingrich Slams [MSNBC] Reporter Ron Allen About Sarah Palin'
[her so-called "lack of experience"]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zXi90EVeg

"Us Weekly goon gets torn up by [Fox News] Megyn Kelly"
[over their bogus story on Palin]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAy4-Kmz5T4&feature=related

Note: UsWeekly = UsMagazine.
These are the left-wing slime balls who ran the bogus article on Palin:
http://www.usmagazine.com/

"US Weekly", on the other hand, is a terrific, hard-hitting must-see anti-Obama website:
http://www.usweekly.com/

Baracuda!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sN-d2NbUMo

2 posted on 09/06/2008 12:38:40 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)
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Sarah Palin's 2008 RNC Convention Speech (44 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKgNrb3baNM

3 posted on 09/06/2008 12:39:13 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)
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To: Clairity

This is HUGH and SERIES. I guess ‘RAT Ex-Chairman, little Donnie Fouler was wrong when he made those obnoxious remarks on the airplane.


4 posted on 09/06/2008 12:39:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
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To: Clairity

over 37 million watched Sarah.

24 million watched Biden.

:<)

Palin Acceptance Speech Draws 37M Viewers, Utterly Outshines Biden

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075755/posts


5 posted on 09/06/2008 12:43:59 PM PDT by AuntB ( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: AuntB
McCain actually got more viewers than the Anointed One.

What disturbs me is the rumors that press passes were handed out to Code Pinkos by Ron Paulistas and members of the Obamedia to disrupt McCain's speech.
6 posted on 09/06/2008 12:50:18 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
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To: Clairity

This is really bad news for the Rats considering all Obama has going for his is the media hype.


7 posted on 09/06/2008 12:51:25 PM PDT by KansasGirl (Go Governor Palin Go!!!! We need a conservative woman to straighten out DC!!)
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To: KansasGirl

his = him


8 posted on 09/06/2008 12:53:12 PM PDT by KansasGirl (Go Governor Palin Go!!!! We need a conservative woman to straighten out DC!!)
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To: AuntB
24 million watched Biden
Out of those 24 million, who started out "watching Biden", how many actually stayed awake and stayed tuned?

Certainly Plugs didn't excite anyone.

9 posted on 09/06/2008 12:56:24 PM PDT by samtheman
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Precisely!


10 posted on 09/06/2008 12:57:43 PM PDT by AuntB ( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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The MSM has given this fact very little notice.

But when Obama’s speech drew 38 Million, it was major news.

Had McCain drawn less then Obama, it too would be major news.

But since he actually got more viewers, it’s a non-story.


11 posted on 09/06/2008 1:02:19 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Sarah make Arnold look like a girlie man)
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To: ETL

Thanks for posting that USWeekly link. It is amazing.

I havent even scratched the surface of all the info and hyperlinks it contains.

It IS a must read.


12 posted on 09/06/2008 1:12:43 PM PDT by Canedawg (Sarah Palin Rocks! McCain-Palin '08)
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To: Canedawg
You're welcome. Please check out my FR Home page also.

Sample...

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."

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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements [1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..." -Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, pg 95.

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Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!


"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: Bill Ayers' own website ___________________________________________________________


Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times

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ETL's FR Home/About page.
Again, all my material is linked directly to its source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl

13 posted on 09/06/2008 1:35:34 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)
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To: Clairity
Youtube of Convention

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hanging with some freepers and lurkers
14 posted on 09/06/2008 2:09:59 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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