Dem debate drew smallest audience of the primary season thus far...

[book_worm]

A Democratic Party presidential debate on CBS drew the smallest audience thus far among the series of primary debates — not much surprise given its Saturday-night slot. It scored a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 7.22 million viewers. By comparison, the first Democratic debate on CNN in October brought in a 3.4 rating and more than 15 million viewers.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/11/15/tv-ratings-saturday-nov-14-2015/

still it got more viewers than any other program on primetime last night.

[azmom]

1. Not a good move to have it on a Saturday.

Those are really low numbers.

[peacebird]

3. The next one is the friday before christmas... Place bets it gets lower numbers still.

[azmom]

9. The Friday before Christmas?

That's a horrible time.

[peacebird]

13. It's why she picked it, I am sure.

[frylock]

32. It's the Saturday before Christmas, and it goes up against the Cowboys-Jets game.

[valerief]

11. DWS likes the competition of date night and football, I guess. nt

[randys1]

2. I dvr'd msnbc to see debate commentary after but i didnt go late enough it seems

Wanted to see that

[PatrickforO]

4. That's because DWS and the DNC scheduled it on a SATURDAY night

during football season. 7.22 million is really good for a Saturday night, but the Fox Business debate with the GOP drew 13.5 million viewers.

So nothing new here, just more disgust with Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Most Wonkey Folks could see this coming.

Wasserman-Schultz should be held accountable for this,but that is not going to happen. And so it goes.

[book_worm]

6. Given how well the debates have gone for HRC so far I wonder if she

regrets agreeing to so few? and at such awkward days.

[think]

8. No regrets. It's going just as planned.

[PatrickforO]

10. Yes, Clinton did do well last night.

Probably because Sanders wants to focus with single minded intensity on issues. Though O'Malley was a bit obnoxious - but he had to be that way to get any movement at all.

[askew]

17. The debate last night did not go well for Hillary and she knows it.

Her team is desperately trying to clean-up her 9/11 Wall Street quote this morning and it isn't working. And most telling, Hillary only appeared onstage at her post-debate party for 3 minutes and only mentioned the debate once. Compared to her post-debate party in Nevada where she gave a long speech and talked about how well the debate went.

I think O'Malley was the clear winner even with the moderator not allowing him to talk. He had the two most memorable moments of the night - his impassioned defense of immigration and calling out Donald Trump as a carnival barker and his saying that soldiers aren't "boots on the ground". Both, were emotional moments that got huge applause.

The other memorable moment was Hillary's 9/11 Wall Street gaffe. I don't think there is any way to clean that one up.

[HerbChestnut]

7. Expected, but disappointing.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Not bad at all given the circumstances that no one can control. Quality over quantity is what

real debate is all about and more Americans welcome debate versus clown shows than the mass media will ever tell you.

[99th_Monkey]

16. " circumstances that no one can control" .. except DWS/DNC Hillary shill that is. -nt-

[Fred Sanders]

19. Hate is not a liberal quality either.

[99th_Monkey]

22. Then why do you hate a level Primary Election field, with an adequate # of debates

scheduled when people will actually WATCH them, as the GOP is doing?

[azmom]

24. Why?

Because they are political cowards. That's why. It's as bad as republicans not wanting minorities to be able to vote. They know Hillary's only chance of winning is name recognition. Her record doesn't stand up to scrutiny. We saw that last night.

Political cowardness.

[frylock]

33. The fuck?

[frylock]

34. Scheduling was just an act of nature?

[askew]

14. Exactly what Debbie wanted.

Expect debates to continue small audiences as next two are on weekends as well.

Sanders made a mistake in not agreeing to do debates outside the DNC sanctioned ones. O'Malley tried to get him to come onboard for them and now when he needs the media exposure, he won't get it.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. I guess nobody wants to tune in to see Bernie.

Hillary is a known quantity. Everybody already knows her.

[pinebox]

18. On a Saturday night the last thing anybody wants is to watch a debate

You should be very concerned for your candidate because this isn't helping her either

[hedda_foil]

20. DWS: Mission Accomplished!

[CaptainTruth]

21. The debate was live streamed, wasn't it?

I looked at the link & didn't see anything about streaming/Internet viewers being included in the total.

Maybe I missed it? Maybe they weren't included?

[jaycrewz]

23. Yep

I watched online.

DWS, the DNC and HRC have put a bad taste in my mouth. Small debate schedule...hiding the debates in bad time slots (freaking NFL playoff Sunday for the Feb debate). Im this close to not voting next fall if Hillary wins.

I have my reservations about some of her political positions and flip flops...but this sort of rigging and outright ignoring of what democrat voters want pisses me off. We want more debates, and we want people to view the debates.

I cannot support a candidate when deep down in my core I feel like the primary is being fixed. I cannot support that sort of "democracy".

And trust me, Im not alone in my sentiment. The DNC better get their act together.

[azmom]

25. It's egregious. I can't stand for it either.

Bernie
Because fuck this shit!

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

26. I have no idea why that would be the case. Nobody goes out on Saturday.

[Lochloosa]

28. College football. There some good games on last night.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

30. ...

[Scuba]

27. Hey, hey, ho, ho. DINO Debbie's got to go!

[TeddyR]

29. Seems to me

That folks accusing the Dem party of trying to "fix" the debates so that Hillary is the nominee aren't facing reality. I HOPE (and this is where I could be wrong) that the Dem leadership wants the nominee to be the one who has the best chance of winning the general, be that Hillary, O'Malley or Sanders. That's what I'd like - at this point I'm probably in the O'Malley camp but I doubt he's going to be the nominee and I'll support Sanders or Hillary over any Republican, especially that "carnival barker" Trump.

[frylock]

31. Mission Accomplished.