Wants some more excellent news? Nielsen ratings...

[cags]

1st night of Democratic National Convention reaches 26.2M viewers, nearly 4M more than RNC

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/1st-night-of-democratic-national-convention-reaches-262m-viewers-nearly-4m-more-than-rnc/2012/09/05/f0e372f6-f7cd-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_story.html

[mucifer]

1. and we probably have more people watching ours on the internet than theirs.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Wow, that's great!

I'm not one little bit surprised, either!

[jberryhill]

3. You see? You see?

It's all those Democrats buying flat screen TV's with those welfare checks Obama is just handing out.

/endfreeper

[robinlynne]

4. lol!!!

[cags]

5. LMAO!

[TDale313]

9. lol /endfreeper. Cracked me up. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Nice. Two ZINGers in one post (welfare, /endfreeper or /freeper)! nt

[turtlerescue1]

18. Yep.

[ellisonz]

6. 26.2 million ain't half-bad.

[WCGreen]

21. About 15% of the country who are eligible to vote

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Considering half the country doesn't vote, that's a good chunk...

....I bet we had more women tune in.

[ellisonz]

29. That's a lot of motivated Democrats!

[mick063]

7. And the second night competes with

opening night of the National Football League. The Holy Grail of Nielsen ratings.

[flamingdem]

8. y'see Media, be nice to Democrats cuz we make you $$

tis true do the #ARITHMETIC

[Stewland]

10. Let's hope the momentum builds

This looks good as we will now have our tv filled with right wing lies and distortions from now till the election. Get out the vote ,fight voter suppression in the courts and give money to progressives. The party of cranky and insane old white men and their brain dead female followers will not go quietly into the night.

[Cha]

11. MediaWhore$$ Inc...

take note.

[DemKittyNC]

12. This is great news!

I had to watch mine on my laptop over the internet. My dad made me turn it off on the TV - asshole republican that he is. I can't wait for tomorrow! Go Obama 2012!!!!!!

[SunSeeker]

15. Gee, your dad can't be all bad--you obviously turned out great!

[abumbyanyothername]

22. Why would he be afraid of hearing the other side's case?

I watched the Republican convention nearly wire to wire.

[coldbeer]

13. The GOP was such a bore ...

I refused to watch the Democratic Convention. I walked into the kitchen where the wife was doing dishes while watching tV. We have a tiny tv by the kitchen sink. Bill Clinton was
on and I quickly went to my den and switched from ESPN to MSNBC and enjoyed. I have
been depressed and now I am happy. A tv by the sink and a den? Benefits of Social Security!!! The wife refuses to use a dishwasher and my den is the whole basement.
And Clinton inspired me!!! Thanks Mr. Clinton! Looking forward to Obama's State of the Union!!!

[Jamaal510]

16. Man...they just had to put on the MTV VMAs on the same night that Obama

is supposed to speak. Hopefully there will still be plenty of people around my age tuning in to listen to what he has to say.

[DemKittyNC]

17. I know

That sucks and I know the next day at school all my friends are going to be talking about those stupid MTA video awards and there will be no comments about the DNC or Obama. So sad really especially when they should be involved and care about who gets elected this November since we will be entering college next year and we will need all the help we can get to help pay for that. Under Rmoney/Lyin I am sure college would be frowned upon especially for a woman to attend college and there will be no help in site.

[leftynyc]

28. I'm pretty sure I saw the VMA's are starting early

in order not to compete with the President. 8-10 rather than 9-11.

[Firebrand Gary]

19. That is fantastic! Thanks Michelle and Julian! When does Bubba and Warren's numbers come out?

[jsmirman]

20. 26.2 M in honor of lyin' Ryan

sub three marathon, my ass.

[abumbyanyothername]

23. I qualified for the Olympic trials in 92

using my paul ryan time.

[jsmirman]

27. I was an alternate for the US ski jumping team

using my paul ryan distance calculator.

Too bad I was all Eddie the Eagle, in the end.

[susanna]

24. Love it :) nt

[Raine]

26. TERRIFIC news! nt

[davidpdx]

30. I have a good feeling Clinton's speech will make it very close between

the convention and the game. A lot of people were excited to hear his speech.