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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Question of the Day

Here's the Question of the day:

What managed to attract less than 2% of the country yesterday?

If you said the Democrat presidential debate, you have won.  The entire debate attracted an audience of 6.6 million viewers according to the preliminary ratings.  It's hard to imagine just how bad those numbers are.  By way of contrast, in 2016, the first debate among Republicans attracted and audience that was four times larger.

Remember, this doesn't mean 6.6 million people watched the debate from start to finish.  Nope, this indicates that 6.6 million watched all OR PART of the debates.  Someone in Ohio who tuned in for five minutes and then dumped the coverage is included in this low number.

Some have said that the extraordinarily low numbers for the Dem candidates are the result of the impeachment hearings and audience fatigue.  Remember, though, that the hearings were on earlier in the day.  Those hearings didn't even get an audience of more than three million.  Literally no one was watching.


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