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Sarah Palin Speech Draws 37.2 Million Viewers

by VLOGZ | September 4, 2008 at 02:18 pm

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night nearly matched the record-setting numbers of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Palin pulled in 37.2 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That's 55% higher than Day 3 of the DNC, when her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, and President Clinton took the stage (24 million).

It's also up a sharp 99% from the Republican convention's third day in 2004 (18.7 million). In fact, it came close to upsetting Obama's record-setting speech on Thursday -- the most-watched in history (38.4 million viewer

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Jarrett Martineau

Wow, those are very impressive audience numbers.

master_jim2008
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at 15:23 on September 4th, 2008

VLOGZ, I like this story. It's good stuff. It was only that high because I decided to go ahead and watch it to see what the goofball said, so I could write a review on it

It was agonizing and I almost had a personal protein spill, but hey.... lol

BigT
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at 22:48 on September 4th, 2008

VLOGZ, I like this story. It's good stuff.

It was a wonderful speech. That's why the republican VP had almost as many viewers as the democratic nominee for president.

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September 4, 2008 at 02:18 pm by VLOGZ, 179 views, 3 comments

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