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blog.nielsen.com - 10/20/2008
Nielsen Wire » Politics
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For McCain, A Start-Of-The-Week, Swing State Ad Surge Yesterday Sen. John McCain boosted his TV advertising units in seven key swing states — Colorado , Florida , Georgia , Missouri , Ohio , Pennsylvania , and Virginia , closing the gap between his advertising and Sen. Barack Obama’s. On ...
insideradvantagegeorgia.com - 10/28/2008
Bill Shipp's Georgia from InsiderAdvantage
— insideradvantagegeorgia.com — InsiderAdvantage / Poll Position Survey Latest Numbers In Presidential Race, Senate Race In Georgia (10/28/08) New numbers... today from InsiderAdvantage / Poll Position in the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Georgia. The polls were conducted last ... (more) Bill Shipp's Georgia from InsiderAdvantage

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bobbarr2008.com - 10/25/2008
Barr Predicts McCain Will Lose in Georgia — Bob Barr 2008
— bobbarr2008.com — ATLANTA, GA"Senator John McCain will not win Georgia," predicts Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president."His... shrinking poll numbers are an indication that McCain is losing touch with the American public as we get closer to November 4th." ... (more) Barr Predicts McCain Will Lose in Georgia — Bob ...

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nybooks.com - 10/18/2008
Georgia: The Ignored History - The New York Review of Books
— nybooks.com — Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008 Georgia: The Ignored History By Robert English Zviad Gamsakhurdia,... Georgia's first post-Soviet president, from 1991 to 1992, has been dead for fifteen years. But in view of his responsibility for initially ... (more) Georgia: The Ignored History - The New York Review of Books

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The Swamp:  Obama's 'Young Digerati' very generous

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Obama's 'Young Digerati' very generous
The Swamp — ... wasn't collecting any of that record $150 million that he raised in September from lobbyists (except maybe lawyers that work at firms that lobby - picky, picky.) And we don't know much about those legions of unidentified donors giving the Democratic nominee for president less than $200, as the McCain campaign has complained, except that there sure are a lot of them. But here's something new to add to our knowledge base of an extraordinary campaign season: "Obama's strongest supporters are... 'Young Digerati.''' So says Nielsen, ...

For Max
Taylor Marsh — ... That’s the ad Chambliss ran, in case you don’t remember it. It still makes me furious all these years later. Chambliss defined swiftboating with this ad against Cleland. McCain just went up in Georgia with advertising. Obama’s strength is making him defend that state. Jim Martin and Saxby Chambliss are in a real battle. The Atlanta Journal Constitution had this to say on Sunday: Chambliss defeat would be justified. Max is right. Georgia deserves better. The United States Senate deserves better than Chambliss. ...

Solid Ratings for Obama-mercial
The Caucus — ... according to preliminary ratings. In the top 56 local TV markets, the household rating for Mr. Obama’s message was 21.7, Nielsen said. The rating indicates the percentage of homes that watched the program. While it will be impossible to judge how many undecided voters the infomercial reached, Mr. Obama’s message clearly reverberated across the country, drawing more viewers than most prime time programs. The commercial was particularly high-rated in several battleground states. According to Nielsen , 29 percent of households in the Philadelphia media market, 28 percent of ...

33.5 Million
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Thursday, October 30, 2008 [image] 33.5 Million [ Jonah Goldberg ] That's how many people watched the Obamercial last night . I wasn't one of 'em. 10/30 04:35 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us

Election-watch: 71.4 million TV viewers
The Swamp — by Mark Silva It wasn't only a big voter-turnout that drove Tuesday's election. Tuesday night's election results drove a big viewer-turnout. 71.4 million people tuned into election coverage between 8 and 11 pm EST, according to Nielsen. 41.5 percent of all households. This compares to 59.2 million in 2004 and 61.6 million in 2000.

Record TVs tuned to the Obama-Biden victory over McCain-Palin
Top of the Ticket — ... ABC scored the best by claiming 9.1 million of the earlier audience and about 8.8 million of the later audience. NBC, CBS and Fox Broadcast came in next, followed by Univision and Telemundo. On cable, CNN was followed by Fox News, then MSNBC, BET and CNBC and BBC-America, according to the Nielsen Wire blog. ...

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