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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (24836)	10/30/2008 5:57:04 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

what was his new tax number 250K, 200k 150 K or 47k.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (24836)	10/30/2008 5:58:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Obama 'Informercial' Brings in the Ratings By Lisa de Moraes Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 30, 2008; 1:44 PM washingtonpost.com More than 30 million people watched the Barack Obama "infomercial" last night at 8 across multiple broadcast and cable networks. According to early ratings, about 30.1 million watched "Barack Obama: American Stories" on CBS, NBC, Fox and Univision. The so-called "time buy," a half-hour program, starred the Democratic presidential candidate. The ad featured vignettes (Obama called them "stories that reflect the state of our union") of American families whose hardships were meant to reflect the country's current economic strife. The program also aired on MSNBC, BET and TVOne. Numbers from those networks were not yet available. And what of ABC, which had hemmed and hawed as to whether to sell the time slot to the Obama campaign or stick with its regularly scheduled show, the struggling "Pushing Daisies"? (ABC finally offered the half-hour to the candidate in recent days, but Obama's camp declined the offer, saying that it had already "moved on.") "Daisies" garnered 6.6 million viewers from 8 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, airing opposite the Obama program in its first half-hour, according to early numbers. That is the show's largest audience yet this season, although not by a lot. Its season debut had 6.3 million viewers. And last week, it had 5.7 million viewers, according to early results from that night. On the other hand, NBC did much, much better with Obama than it did a week earlier with its talking-car show, "Knight Rider." On NBC, the infomercial had its largest audience -- just less than 10 million viewers. One week earlier, "Knight Rider" attracted just less than 8 million in the same half-hour, using the same early stats. CBS also appears to have improved its fortunes slightly by replacing its show "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (8 million viewers) with Obama (8.7 million). Only Fox appears to have sacrificed audience by airing the senator's show. The last time "Bones" aired in the time slot, it had a preliminary audience of just less than 10 million in the half-hour; Obama had 8 million viewers on Fox. An additional 3.7 million viewers watched Obama on Univision.