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Obama’s Speech Finishes Second in the Ratings. Barely.
The Sundries Shack — So, it turns out that Obama’s much-anticipated speech, hyped by the MSM beyond all reason or propriety, was barely the second most popular speech of the conventions and only because Palin’s speech wasn’t shown on a few possibly racist networks. The note here on Palin’s speech is that she only came about 1.1 million short of finishing ahead of Obama, but the two biggest Spanish-speaking networks and two networks that cater to black audiences didn’t show her speech. The two “black” stations, TV One and BET, which are ...

Return of the Silent Majority?
Sound Politics — ... Palinmania : According to Nielsen, Palin also attracted 19.5 million women, which is 4.9 million more than watched Biden. And 1.4 million Hispanic viewers watched, which is more than the 1.2 million who watched day 3 of the Democratic convention, even though Univision and Telemundo did not carry Palin's speech last night. In fact, it's also of note that Palin's speech was carried by four less networks than Obama's speech (BET and TV One also showed Obama). And Palin still drew an audience just shy of Obama's. Our understanding of the fundamentals of this election has been ...

The Miracle Worker
The American Spectator — ... showed McCain had widened the margin to 4 points among registered voters -- and had a whopping 10-point lead (54-44 percent) among likely voters. As important as the latest numbers were the trends the tracking polls revealed. Obama actually gained in the immediate wake of the Palin announcement, booming ahead by 8 points (Gallup) and 6 points (Rasmussen) as the media slammed the new Republican running mate. However, once America saw Palin speak for herself -- in a broadcast whose ratings nearly equaled Obama's own "Barackopolis" acceptance speech in Denver -- voters ...