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The DNC convention was easily the most watched one since records have been kept about such happenings starting in 1960, according to numbers just released by the Nielsen Co. The convention actually had more viewers than the recently concluded Olympic games. Furthermore there was a 57% gain in viewers, who watched Obama's acceptance speech, 38.4 million viewers, compared to John Kerry's in 2004 when he attracted 24.4 million.
This definitely speaks to the exitement that is being generated by the democrats in this campaign, and bodes very well for November.
Thus far there has, strangely, been a dearth of post convention polls, not counting the two on-going tracking polls, Gallup and Rasmussen; both of which show a nice bounce for Obama. Nonetheless these Nielsen ratings may be even more pertinent than any polls that may come out, because it speaks directly about the peoples interest in the democratic ticket shown by their daily desire in wanting to hear and see the democratic team in action.
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