Palin Speech Draws 37.2 million viewers.

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My Way News - More than 40 million people see Palin speech

An audience of 37.2 million people watched Palin on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday. PBS estimated its audience at 3.9 million, based on a less reliable sample of several big cities. Nielsen does not count the audience for C-SPAN, which also showed the speech.
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Sarah continues to outdo Obama.
 
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Obama raises $10 million after Palin speech - The conventions - MSNBC.com

Obama raises millions of dollars in on-line donations after Palin's speech. Democrats are very happy with McCain's pick! She speaks to the conservative base but turns off the other 44 to 45% of Americans! This fight is now for the 2 to 5% of the voters who have not made up their minds!

Republicans make up about 38 to 40% of the voting public. Democrats make up an equal number. Many independents have already made their choice (polls suggest 5-7%). Now it's up to the very few who are left undecided.
 
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Obama's speech was also on more channels than Palin's speech... BET carried Obama's but not Palin's for example.
 
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Justthrowtheball said:
Obama raises $10 million after Palin speech - The conventions - MSNBC.com

Obama raises millions of dollars in on-line donations after Palin's speech. Democrats are very happy with McCain's pick! She speaks to the conservative base but turns off the other 44 to 45% of Americans! This fight is now for the 2 to 5% of the voters who have not made up their minds!

Republicans make up about 38 to 40% of the voting public. Democrats make up an equal number. Many independents have already made their choice (polls suggest 5-7%). Now it's up to the very few who are left undecided.
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Is the reason they raised this large sum of money because they are happy with the pick or realize they need to step it up a bit? I don't know the answer but it would seem to me that if everything was honkey dorey and they were satisfied in their position there would be no need for a sudden surge in donations like this after the VP pick makes her speech.

It almost sounds to me like they realize she could be a tough cookie!
 
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McCain is having the same problem with Obama that Gore had with Bush in 2000. He can come away with the popular vote but he has a problem in the electoral vote. Obama is coming away from these conventions in a much stronger position than Kerry had in 2004 looking at the electoral map and McCain is now locked in to his public finance money. I was confident that Tennessee would beat UCLA so I know things happen but if McCain wins it will be an uphill battle for him IMO.
 
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615 Vol said:
McCain is having the same problem with Obama that Gore had with Bush in 2000. He can come away with the popular vote but he has a problem in the electoral vote. Obama is coming away from these conventions in a much stronger position than Kerry had in 2004 looking at the electoral map and McCain is now locked in to his public finance money. I was confident that Tennessee would beat UCLA so I know things happen but if McCain wins it will be an uphill battle for him IMO.
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That has been evident since the candidates were settled on, I do think that over the past month and a half McCain's bid has looked better than at any other time.
 
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No! You don't understand how fundraiser works. The opposition receives money when the other side makes them angry by saying things they don't like.
 
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emainvol said:
Women probably had an interest in what she was saying because she is a woman, yes. There are certainly Hillary supporters that only supported her because she is a woman. There are plenty of people that watched last night that were in play, however she probably put every bit as many of them in Obama's column as she did McCain's. Whether or not that is a good thing, well I'll tell you in two weeks.

Hell, I was interested in what she was going to say because she is an unknown and is a woman.
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I don't buy that for a second.
 
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Tenn NC, Justthrowtheball, notverycrucial can any of you list obama's accomplishments? I've seriously heard bout all this change etc, but what has he done? other than be a teacher, and community organizer.
 
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Vol Mania 21 said:
Tenn NC, Justthrowtheball, notverycrucial can any of you list obama's accomplishments? I've seriously heard bout all this change etc, but what has he done? other than be a teacher, and community organizer.
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I'll take this one please. He has routinely and successfully pulled the wool over half the country's eyes with his "hope and change" bull. That is it unless you want to include that he found a nice little group of anti-Americans to call friends. Oh and joined a racist church. That about sums it up!!!
 
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615 Vol said:
So people were watching and felt threatened and went to BarackObama.com and donated money?
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I think they, as most of us were, didn't know what to expect from a newcomer they were unfamiliar with. Sure she said some things many on the left wouldn't like, but she also said some things that rang true to a lot of undecideds out there, some democrat some repub.

The fact that she pulled it off so well, considering her lack of experience on the national stage would be considered by many on the left a serious threat, at least a threat worth countering and that is where the money comes in, to run adds to rebuff Palin and McCain and try to snatch up as many of those undecideds as possible.

I also feel that many voters who are serious about having a real change of direction in America will look at her paired with McCain and see more hope for an end to partisan politics with them. After all McCain has been known as a cross the isle kind of guy and Palin is in the mold of the every day average "joelene". I think the dems know this would appeal to many voters especially since Obama has shown no ability to do this. The money will be used to discredit that notion.

I could be right, could be wrong but that is my take on it, and sure some of it is because the selection of Palin and the speeches made dems mad, but it would be naive to think that the only reason.
 
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Vol Mania 21 said:
Tenn NC, Justthrowtheball, notverycrucial can any of you list obama's accomplishments? I've seriously heard bout all this change etc, but what has he done? other than be a teacher, and community organizer.
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What are McCains accomplishments other than being a war hero, which I commend him for, but seriously, other than that what, besides support Bush's policies 90% of the time? And now, he wants to talk about change?
 
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onevolfan said:
What are McCains accomplishments other than being a war hero, which I commend him for, but seriously, other than that what, besides support Bush's policies 90% of the time? And now, he wants to talk about change?
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do your own homework? He has actually authored legislation and been the driver behind other.

And that little military commander / POW thingy that you gloss over is far more experience than the entire ticket the dems are putting forth. Obama has nothing even remotely close to that, as far as leadership credentials are concerned.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
do your own homework? He has actually authored legislation and been the driver behind other.

And that little military commander / POW thingy that you gloss over is far more experience than the entire ticket the dems are putting forth. Obama has nothing even remotely close to that, as far as leadership credentials are concerned.
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Being a military commander/POW does not mean you can run a country. If that were the case, there are thousands of people who are qualified, if that's really all it takes.
 
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Gee, I wonder why George Washington was chosen as the first president.
 
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onevolfan said:
Being a military commander/POW does not mean you can run a country. If that were the case, there are thousands of people who are qualified, if that's really all it takes.
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But coupled with other meaningful experience it makes you that much more qualified.
 
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onevolfan said:
Being a military commander/POW does not mean you can run a country. If that were the case, there are thousands of people who are qualified, if that's really all it takes.
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so being a community organizer means you are more qualified?
 
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615 Vol said:
So people were watching and felt threatened and went to BarackObama.com and donated money?
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The sent out a fund raising email right after her speech saying how they needed to counter her comments, etc.

The question is, did this $10 million come from NEW Obama supporters or EXISTING Obama supporters. If the latter, it suggests concern. If the former it suggests she's driving voters to Obama.
 
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