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Palin's Speech Watched By Nearly As Many As Obama's Acceptance
TPM Election Central — ... Sarah Palin's speech last night was a ratings hit, with an estimated 37 million viewers according to Nielsen ratings of the major broadcast and cable news networks. That's just shy of Nielsen's figure of 38 million people who watched Barack Obama's speech last week on those same outlets. ...

Polls Are The Only Accurate Convention Pundits
Open Left - Front Page — ... As far as the first claim goes, the jury is still out. Tracking polls won't include responses post-Palin until tomorrow morning. However, given that Monday was a very good day in the tracking polls for Obama-Biden, it is likely that McCain will gain 1-2% in the Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls tomorrow. Also, Palin's speech scored a huge audience, which could help Republicans, too (or hurt them, if they watched Giuliani's speech first). Currently, ...

Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... private school voucher scheme. * Why would the McCain campaign acknowledge a tabloid rumor few had even heard of? (On a related note, the National Enquirer's response was surprisingly amusing.) * Do Republicans know there's still a war going on in Afghanistan? Apparently not . * Let's have a more detailed conversation about which of the two competing families -- the McCains and the Obamas -- qualify as " elitists ." * Palin's television ratings were extremely good last night. * If Democrats used fake troops in a convention video , we'd ...

What Constitutes Success for Palin?
Comments from Left Field — ... Last night marked what will likely be the highest rated evening of the GOP convention.  And for this it’s important to understand that she fell about a million or so viewers short of Obama’s widely viewed acceptance speech a week ago.  This because the sheer volume of fence sitters possible to swing one way or another into either camp is therefore a smidge smaller for the GOP than the Democratic party. ...