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Not Much Enthusiasm for Biden and Democrats as Convention TV Ratings Tank
21 Aug 2020 ~~ By Rick Moran
Much has been made of the “enthusiasm gap” between Trump and Biden supporters. The short story is that fewer than half of Biden supporters are “very enthusiastic” about supporting him compared to 65 percent of Trump supporters, who identify as “very enthusiastic.”
This makes a difference on Election Day — usually. But with mail-in voting, you don’t have to motivate yourself to go out in the cold and stand in line at the polling place to cast your ballot. The most strenuous activity you’ll see in mail-in voting will be licking the stamp to post the ballot.
Nevertheless, there are other ways to measure “enthusiasm.” One of them is interest in party conventions. Alas, for Democrats, it’s something of a bust.
On Monday night, the NBA playoffs (without fans in the stands) trounced convention coverage on all three over-the-air networks combined. On Tuesday, America’s Got Talent swamped the network’s coverage of the Democrats.
But far more significantly, viewership compared to 2016 was way off.
New York Post:
The broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — took the biggest hit, with a 42-percent decline in viewers from 2016.
The three cable news networks fared better, but still saw a 16-percent drop in viewership from 2016, the report said.
The first night of the virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention was largely a snoozefest and that was reflected in its dismal TV ratings, which tanked compared to the opening festivities of 2016.Among the six, MSNBC drew the most eyes during the 10 p.m. hour, with 5.1 million viewers.
[snip]My theory on voters tuning in to this “America’s Got No Talent” TV show is that it’s just bad reality TV. Americans are a discerning folk and the Democratic convention as “must-watch” TV is like a cross between a bad episode of the Bachelor and a good episode of Marriage Boot Camp. There’s far more action and much less talk on both of those shows.
Comment:
Bidet’s appearances during the convention, which were only vignettes carefully edited, reminded me of the Joe Pesci commentary in My Cousin Vinny wherein he describes the prosecution case as nothing more than a house of cards. It looks strong when looked at head on but when you examine the cards, they are thin and flimsy. Of course the media will do all in its power to avoid any examination of him and his positions. I hope Trump uses the Joe Lewis approach, saying Bidet can run be he cannot hide. The only thing we need worry about here is if this is a contrived rope a dope campaign by the liar Democrats. Trump punches away at Bidet but the real enemy has yet to make themselves known.
Who wants to watch and listen to this lying HATE SPEECH?
Even Democrat voters aren't watching because they're busy rioting and spending their SNAP benefits on 40 ounce Cobras.
