The Hotline posts some Nielsen numbers from last night’s speech by Sarah Palin:
- The Sara Palin speech generated 37.2 million viewers, just a 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.
Todd Sullivan thinks that Palin would have easily beat Obama’s numbers had a million people in Louisiana, Mississippi and East Texas not been displaced due to the hurricane. Still, this is an amazing showing for a Vice Presidential nominee compared to a Presidential nominee. Also, I think it’s good proof that lots of people are either excited and/or interested in this Republican nominee.
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