From Sam Stein’s GOP Convention Drawing Far Fewer Viewers Than Dems: “According to the Nielsen ratings, 14.2 million people viewed the second day (technically the first) of the GOP convention — a full 4.3 million less than watched the Democrats last Tuesday. The majority of viewers were 55 years or older…”
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too bad young people (like kyle) don’t vote.
This is from an article on Tallahassee.com, “Young voters may tip the balance“:
“More than 6.5 million people under 30 voted in this year’s presidential primaries and caucuses, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
“The center — funded by Pew Charitable Trusts, Carnegie Corp. of New York and several other foundations — said that turnout “marks a dramatic increase in the youth voter turnout over the last comparable election in 2000, and the first time the youth vote has risen in three consecutive election cycles since 1971 when the voting age was lowered to 18.”
“In June, CIRCLE reported that the national youth voter turnout rate almost doubled, from 9 percent in 2000 to 17 percent this year. Of 17 states where exit polls were also conducted in 2000, 16 ’saw increases in youth voter turnout with some states seeing triple or quadruple increases.’”
Speaking of youth vote, the national polls that have the election as relatively close (with Obama widening the gap) don’t take into account all those 18-29 year olds who don’t have a landline. Almost all of the polling data is based on phone calls, but pollsters don’t call cell phones. So those polls: the youth doesn’t show up in them.
When you figure that an overwhelming majority of the youth vote will be given to Obama (the last numbers I saw, from August 11, have the youth vote at 56% Obama and 35% McCain), then those national polls start to widen even further.
It depends on where the young people are and Ratings are a crappy way to judge such a thing. Love to see the rating tonight competing with the NFL.