TVSquad

I think more people may tune in to hear VP-nominee Palin's speech than McCain's. She's the only interesting/exciting part of that ticket.

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Depends on what happens with the hurricane.

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if John McCain's acceptance speech -- scheduled to be delivered from the XCell Arena in St. Paul, Minnesota on Thursday evening -- draws significantly less viewers that Obama's, will that be an indicator of voting preference? I can't say, but I'm curious enough to tune in and hear his speech.

No. We already know where John McCain stands and he's not putting on a massive spectacle of style over substance. There's no real reason to watch. A good portion of the audience watched Obama to roll their eyes and to see if he'd roll out the same old rhetoric packaged as "new ideas" and "change." Obama did not fail them. And the greek temple was *ridiculous* although it made for nice looking TV. Hell of a parable of the man and his campaign, actually.

The extra viewers that tuned into Obama in order to scoff won't bother to watch McCain because they already know he's going to trot out the same old stuff. War, evil must be defeated, I was in Vietnam, predatory lending, gas prices. He's not going to cover any new ground. The set isn't a spectacle, the setting isn't anything to see and the candidate ain't much either. Hell of a parable of the man and his campaign, actually.

Now if Sarah Palin was the nominee...then maybe ratings would be a real referendum on the election. She can talk, she's new, fresh, young, attractive, she's directly comparable to Obama...but she's not the nominee, just the potential veep. As it stands now, trying to draw a correlation between Convention ratings and real votes is like trying to draw a real voting scenario from those red versus blue wines (or ketchups or beers or any other stupid product that CNN or Fox trots out as the next big indicator of what November will look like).

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And what a snooze-fest it was, for those of us who aren't Obama zealots.

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First of all it would be amazing if he could deliver one tenth of what he promises to do. My issue with Obama besides disagreeing with him on pretty much everything is he never explains how he is going to do something. Of course I can't name three things he has done in congress to begin with so there you go. Not a good sign when the republican V.P candidate has more experience than your own Democratic presidential candidate. I will say this, Obama is a great speaker. No doubt about that at all.

I am quite surprised that the rating last night were higher than the Olympic ceremonies however the convention was on every channel. You cannot compare ratings to votes. That has been done before and proved overwhelmingly wrong everytime. Not everyone is registered to vote. I should hope you would know that. Just a thought.

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And Obama got almost 12 hours of fawning coverage before the media turned its attention to a more captivating story.

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I had no idea people who watch TV (or the people who comment on this blog) were so conservative.

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