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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (7117)	9/3/2004 11:44:36 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Scott, More poll results will be announced over the weekend. My guess is that they will show, on average, that Bush is up by five or six points. Interestingly enough, the GOP convention got higher ratings than the Democratic convention. One would think that there would have been more curiousity about John Kerry. story.news.yahoo.com Bush, Republicans Outpoll Kerry, Democrats on TV Fri Sep 3, 8:11 PM ET By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Although the election is not until November, President Bush (news - web sites) and his Republican party have bested John Kerry (news - web sites) and the Democrats as far as U.S. television ratings are concerned, research showed on Friday Nearly 28 million Americans -- more than a quarter of them watching cable's Fox News Channel alone -- tuned in to see Bush accept his nomination for a second term at the climax of the Republican National Convention on Thursday, according to Nielsen Media Research. Bush's national TV audience topped Kerry's speech at the Democratic convention in July by just over 3 million viewers, among those watching Big Three commercial networks ABC, CBS and NBC and the three leading cable news outlets -- Fox, CNN and MSNBC. The Republican meeting as a whole also drew bigger audiences than the Democrats, averaging 22.6 million viewers over four nights at New York City's Madison Square Garden, compared with 20.4 million mustered by Kerry and his party in Boston in July. Meanwhile, Fox News continued its unprecedented ratings dominance over this year's Republican convention, edging out not only its cable rivals but each of the major broadcast networks by drawing 7.3 million viewers to its telecast of Bush's address. That marked the third straight night Fox has surpassed its larger broadcast rivals in the first case of a cable channel attracting more viewers than any of the three major networks during a scheduled event covered by all of them, experts said. NBC ranked second on Thursday with 5.9 million viewers, followed by ABC with 5.1 million and CBS with 5 million. CNN finished fifth with 2.6 million viewers while NBC's sister cable channel, MSNBC, brought up the rear with 1.7 million. Fox benefited from the fact that its audience is "ideologically very much aligned with the Republican Party" and apparently turned out in larger numbers to watch the GOP convention than the Democrats, said independent network news analyst Andrew Tyndall. By comparison, Fox News averaged 2.6 million viewers during Kerry's speech in July, about 1 million fewer than tuned in on CNN, widely perceived as more liberal-leaning. Fox News has insisted its performance during the Republican convention speaks for itself and demonstrates that it is capable of attracting a mass audience. But Tyndall added: "If they really want to say that they can go head-to-head with the major networks, they've got to do it on a nightly basis, not a special-occasion basis." For both conventions this year, ABC, CBS and NBC limited their prime-time commercial coverage to just an hour a night for three nights, skipping one evening of both events altogether. The three cable outlets offered gavel-to-gavel coverage.