Ratings: Democratic Debate No. 2 Drops by Almost Half on a Saturday

[think]

Ratings: Democratic Debate No. 2 Drops by Almost Half on a Saturday

By Matt Webb Mitovich / November 15 2015, 3:38 PM PST

CBS’ Saturday-night broadcast of this presidential election cycle’s second Democratic Debate drew 8.6 million total viewers, down 44 percent from when Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders et al first faced off, on a Tuesday for CNN.

The debate led all of Saturday primetime in total audience, but fell shy of ABC’s college football broadcast in the 18-49 demo.

Last month’s first Democratic Debate drew 15.3 million total viewers, while the first two Republican debates drew 24 and 23 million viewers, respectively.

Source:
http://tvline.com/2015/11/15/democratic-debate-ratings-clinton-sanders-saturday/

DWS is doing a bang up job of making sure the American public gets to hear from our Democratic candidates.

[Prism]

1. I had no idea it was on

And I'm a political junkie. It just sort of arrived at an odd hour. I wasn't about to run home and watch. I had socializing to do. I'll nab the highlights where able (Lois Griffin: 9/11, is what I've seen as the most online traction).

But that was the design. Make sure people don't see it.

The thing is, they can't pull this during the general. So how, exactly, do they propose to save Hillary from herself then?

[99th_Monkey]

2. Who knew this might happen??

More like who didn't ... so predictable, so unnecessary, so sad, both for
the Party and for the nation.

[Moliere]

3. All transpired according to DWS' plan

[Docreed2003]

4. The timing was terrible...

Saturday night is a terrible time for a political debate, but last nights rating drop was certainly compounded by the fact that it's college football Saturday. A lot of average viewers were tuned into the games that were going on during the debate. Whether this was agreed on because CBS demanded this timing or if it was orchestrated by the DNC, doesn't matter, it was a moronic time slot for a debate.

[think]

5. It's deliberate. The next debate is the Saturday before Christmas & then on MLK weekend after that

It's way too obvious what's going on....

[Adrahil]

6. I didn't watch it....

And by all accounts I didn't miss learning anything new.

Seriously? Four more? OK. Whatever.

[think]

8. So you're against promoting our candidates to OTHER people who don't know what our

candidates stand for?

Do you think it's smart marketing by the DNC when 74 million viewers have seen the GOP candidates and only 23.5 million have seen the Democratic candidates debate?

Yet Hillary needs billions to advertise. Got it....

[redstateblues]

9. Sorry folks-The Democratic debate was BORING

I tried to watch some but it was a snooze fest. Bernie with his stump speech and Hillary with her policy details that DUers hate. I don't care what night it's on- The Republican debate is only interesting because they are saying crazy shit- it's a competition to see who can be the craziest.

[think]

12. I'm sorry a discussion of important issues bores you. /nt

[Adrahil]

10. Heh.... yeah... that's not really how it works.

People have been watching to the GOP debates to see which moron will look the goofiest.

The current Dem debates are not going to attract a lot of independent voters thinking about their vote next November. They are mainly for the Party faithful looking to push their preferred candidate. Was anything new actually debated at this event? I mean, we had the Paris attacks, but Bernie seems to have spent maybe 30 seconds on it?

Many Sanders supporters had pinned their hopes on Bernie dominating Clinton in the debates. That hasn't happened and is unlikely to happen. I'm fine with holding them, but I'm not likely to watch another one. I'll just catch the highlight reels.

[think]

11. Debates offer uninformed people to hear about the Democratic message and stand on the issues.

That's why we have debates.

Fewer viewers means more less informed voters. Less informed voters make poor choices.

[jfern]

7. That's a feature, not a bug