Ratings for impeachment trial lower than soap ratings

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The drama in DC is no different than a bad reality tv show. At least bad reality tv can be (somewhat) entertaining and believable.
 
All I can say is that if you watch soap operas during the daytime, you ain’t got much of a life anyway. So it doesn’t surprise me that many people that normally watch them would not be interested in watching what is going on in the real world.

Honestly, what do soap operas offer. Usually lots of immoral behavior set in a fantasy setting where everyone is over dramatic with no educational value.

Just my take on the ratings.
 
I think it’s cause nearly everyone has already made up their minds. It’s not like any new information is going to be revealed.
 
I think anybody who knows anything about the trial knows that there is pretty much a 0% chance of the president’s impeachment going through in the Senate.
 
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No point in watching. We all know what the outcome will be. My senators had already decided how they would vote before the articles of impeachment were drawn up. I’m sure that’s true of the other 98.
 
There’s no excitement in such parliamentary/legal proceedings. No dead bodies (sorta), no sex scandals, etc.

It’s boring
 
My only interest in it was those funny impeachment-themed cocktails that some of the bars on Capitol Hill were serving. I love political pop culture. Couldn’t care less about all the boring speeches though.
 
I think people have had, seen and heard enough over the last 3 years. We want our lives back and for the
politicians to get back to work.
 
I tried watching it but it was boring. And I am someone who will watch CSPAN.
 
So you’re saying they’re all washed up?

Their hopes popped like a bubble?

Swirling down the drain?

Thanks, I’ll be here all week :crazy_face:
 
The polling seems to be all over the place as to not only the impeachment proceedings themselves but also as to how they are impacting the President’s approval rating, and how, if any, they play into the Democrats running for the ballot position.

It is clear that ratings of a number of stations have gone down in terms of people watching either the proceedings themselves, or the analysis of the proceedings.

As this is a political take down of the President, as opposed to a high crimes and misdemeanors charge(s) approach, it would be interesting to see sociologists step into the research, to bring some clarity on both sides of the political spectrum as to what people believe and as to what, based on those beliefs, their positions are. Certainly there have been several Senators and Congressmen who have related what they are being told by their voters/constituents; whether they only talk to like-minded citizens, or whether they are receiving bi=partisan responses, the reports are that at least some people in some districts/states are more interested in seeing governmental business conducted (trade issues, drug costs, dealing with an impending end to a law governing fentanyl) than they are in seeing the trial continue unabated.

Which in turn does not mean automatically they agree with an acquittal. That could be the subject of another thread.

I have some friends who think that CNN, et alia are God’s Gospel Truth on matters impeachment to the point they will not even consider anything which might show that this was not some massive self aggrandizement of Trump’s doing, abusing the office of the Presidency. In other words they seem to think nothing at all of Al Green’s blurting out that they (the Democrats) have been seeking to impeach Trump since he was finally nominated the Republican candidate.

And we have plenty of folks who seem to want to paint Trump as God’s gift to the US, beyond any reproach.

That, and the fact that one has to be an aficionado of politics (and presumably, pain) to follow along with something that in the age of instant analysis appears to be moving at a glacier pace may be part of the reason that people have tired of watching for fireworks which have not appeared to anyone except the breathless news editorialists who treat each incremental step as the next bombshell, or the next self destruction of the proponents.

It truly can seem boring with the same comments being repeated night after night after week.
 
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No point in watching. We all know what the outcome will be. My senators had already decided how they would vote before the articles of impeachment were drawn up.
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Right. Unless they all of a sudden find a huge smoking gun on the order of the Watergate tapes in a closet somewhere, then this is all just a bunch of people campaigning for re-election. Vote for me because I fought so hard to get rid of Trump/ keep Trump.

It’s a waste of the taxpayers’ money.
 
More and more people do not watch traditional TV. “Ratings” does not capture those of us who stream C-span for instance.
 
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