The Democratic National Convention again surpassed its Republican counterpart in viewership numbers Tuesday night, with an average of more than 20 million Americans tuning in compared to the RNC’s 14 million on its second night—a nearly 39% difference.
The event even garnered roughly 500,000 more viewers than its first night—a historical anomaly, according to Nielsen data.
Typically, fewer viewers tune in to the conventions on the second night.
The 2024 convention is the first Democratic conference to have higher ratings on the second night in the last decade—most likely propelled by the primetime speeches given by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Legit my first thought was “why are we celebrating TV RATINGS like they somehow equate to voting?”
You can have 50,000,000 people watch the same TV show but not buy any merchandise. A lot won’t even have the ability to purchase something from the show.
And I sure plenty of people watching last night won’t be able to vote for one reason or another.
It’s Horse Race season. Barring anything really exciting like “her emails” all they have is polls. We’ll see hundreds of “Polls say this” and “Polls say that” headlines in the next 11 weeks.
I mean, the “front page” of lemmy is basically “POLLS? POLLS!” already but I’m positive it’ll get 10x worse.
Yup.
What? They equate more to a poll. Why would anyone equate it to voting? Wtf?