DNC Viewership Disaster: Less Than Half Tune In To Watch Democratic Convention on NBC, ABC and CBS Compared To 2016

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“According to Nielsen, from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern, Monday’s convention debut drew 2.1 million viewers on ABC, 1.9 million on NBC and 1.7 million on CBS. This is less than half the 11.6 million people who watched the first night of the event on those networks four years ago between 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., the website TV by the Numbers reported at the time.”

Cable rating were down 16 per cent.
Networks CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, MSNBC and CNN averaged 18.68 million viewers during the overlapping hour of coverage beginning at 10 p.m. Monday, according to The Hollywood Reporter**, 28-percent plunge from the opening night of the 2016 DNC.
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TV Ratings: Democratic Convention Numbers Down for Night 1

The Democratic National Convention got off to a softer start on the broadcast networks Monday.
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First night of 2020 DNC tanks in TV ratings compared to 2016 convention

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…
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Add all networks and it looks to be a 28 percent plunge in ratings compared to the opening night in 2016. Many complained that it was like a telethon wnile other said it was boring.
 
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Isn’t there a night when they will have both Bill and Hillary Clinton on? That might round up some viewers. But I don’t know. If Michelle Obama couldn’t interest the Democrats at home, maybe nobody can.

Maybe Bezos and Bloomberg can hire some viewers??
 
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Why is this a disaster? It’s a totally different way to run a convention.

They got pretty good press, and all the speakers’ clips are in articles about the convention.
 
Today I asked several people if they got a good night’s sleep from watching the convention, but none of them had watched. The Cubs were playing a doubleheader with the Cardinals, so watching the convention never crossed my mind.

Other things I find more enjoyable that watching the Democrat convention include cutting my lawn, applying fertilizer-weed killer to my lawn, vacuuming the carpets, taking out the trash, mopping the kitchen floor, loading the dishwasher, listening to excuses from the former addict about the groceries I bought for her five weeks ago, resetting all the digital clocks in my home after a brief power outage on Friday, and watching Judge Judy reruns.
 
Zoom stinks. Sound goes off half the time. Plus no reaction. Tired of looking at books sitting on shelves and poorly dressed and poorly groomed people.
 
Maybe Americans are waking up to the fact the speeches would be nothing more than more lies to the American people and nothing more than attacking President Trump so nothing new from the democrats that we haven’t seen over the last
4 years.
 
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Maybe they are already decided. And both conventions are superfluous at this point.
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Maybe both conventions were little more than pandering and propagandizing people to vote for immoral candidates?
 
StudentMI said:
Maybe both conventions were little more than pandering and propagandizing people to vote for immoral candidates?
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They’ve always been propagandist. In 2016, there was a larger gap of undecideds at this point. Now, the voters know both candidates, since both have been in executive office before. Conventions are cheerleading events nobody asked for. It’s all “Just give me the d*** ballot” at this point.
 
I will certainly be watching the Republican Convention,not superfluous
 
No,however,I’m enthusiastic about our president winning a second term.Not so sure the Dem voters are very inspired by JB and KH
 
No doubt about it.However, I would think based on that,enthusiasm would be high ,yet the JB,KH ticket is uninspiring at the very least.
 
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No doubt about it.However, I would think based on that,enthusiasm would be high ,yet the JB,KH ticket is uninspiring at the very least.
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You say that, but it’s just an one opinion. Biden is up most everywhere. This is from fivethirtyeight:

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So tell me what is it about a Biden presidency,you find so appealing,outside of the fact that he isn’t Trump?
 
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No,however,I’m enthusiastic about our president winning a second term.Not so sure the Dem voters are very inspired by JB and KH
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I’m not sure Dem voters are either. I’m not a Democrat or Republican, I usually vote third party as I did in 2016. However, this year I’m voting against Trump. I’ve said it here before, I don’t care if it’s a bag of chips that gets the DNC nod. As it’s been noted many times already, 2020 is a referendum on Trump.

That’s why the conventions are not going to change anyone’s mind. A few voters are unsure. The rest already have formed their opinions.

The other day, Trump flew into my state for a rally. Fewer than 200 showed up, and this was a battleground state in 2020. I don’t think this means his hardcore base are changing their minds. I just think they were the only ones who wanted to risk their health to show support with a public appearance at a rally during a pandemic.

What will likely cement the choice for the undecideds is whether Covid-19 surges back again in September and October. If it does, especially in PA, VA, MI, NC, and WI and a lot of people die and people start being evicted or losing homes, Trump’s ratings will tank again.

If that doesn’t happen, Trump will be a formidable challenge.
 
So you aren’t concerned about what a Biden presidency will do to this great nation?
 
Your question is based on false assumptions. I have many concerns about this election. The severest concerns I have are the existential threat Trump poses to the Republic.

While here, he made a statement: “Minnesota, if you don’t vote for me this time, I’m not coming back here for my third, fourth, fifth terms.”

He repeated the same sentiment a day later in WI, where he matter-of-factly stated he’d of course run for another term - his third - because his first was ruined by the Dems.

Trump does not joke, as he himself has made clear. When he says he will do something, he does it.

That is a direct attack on the Constitution, which he has sworn to defend. It is obvious he seeks to unfetter his power from any limits, and if he’s elected again, he will lead a purge in the GOP to break that party entirely, and use it to go after his political enemies - the Democrats, then anyone who supported them, and anyone who criticizes him publicly.

He has all the authoritarian instincts of a Putin or a Mussolini. In fact, he enjoyed Mussolini’s writings and is one of the few things he’s read.

Clearly, he is a fascist in heart, if not yet by unmitigated power.

Other indicators are his use of secret police against American citizens. His use of police and military forces against protesters in D.C.

His call to delay the election a few weeks ago? That was another fascistic move. In fact, the co-founder of the Federalist Society, a bastion of conservative legal professionals, used that very word to describe Trump’s comment.

When people on his own side and in his own party are sounding the alarm that Trump is a fascist guy, I know it means we are very close to losing any sort of check on him at all.

If Trump wins again, I predict that he will jettison any pretense in caring about the religious base, because he won’t need them anymore to help him with a legal election. And he won’t want to hear about their quaint and boring concerns about decency. He will clean house, steeling his grip on the throat of the GOP, and then go after anyone who opposes him.

At some point, the military commanders will have to decide whether to support the Leader or oppose him.

So do I have concerns about a Biden presidency? Yes. But they pale in comparison to a Trump re-election.

I’ve advised my son, if Trump wins again, to get the hell out of this country while he still can.
 
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