The Democratic National Convention again surpassed its Republican counterpart in viewership numbers Tuesday night, with an average of more than 20 million Americans tuning in compared to the RNC’s 14 million on its second night—a nearly 39% difference.
The event even garnered roughly 500,000 more viewers than its first night—a historical anomaly, according to Nielsen data.
Typically, fewer viewers tune in to the conventions on the second night.
The 2024 convention is the first Democratic conference to have higher ratings on the second night in the last decade—most likely propelled by the primetime speeches given by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
I mean. It’s going to every night, and I’d be real surprised if the RNC ever had more viewers…
Democrats are the majority of voters, Republicans live in the areas with the majority of empty land.
Unfortunately we dont live in a straight democracy
I think Republicans are also generally disengaged. That’s what enables them to vote for so much monstrous garbage; they don’t pay enough attention to know what they’re voting for. There are also plenty of true believers who really are christian nationalists, but for most people, if they follow the policy positions, they’d be Democrats.
So when it comes to the number of people watching a convention, the DNC sorta naturally attracts more people since the base is paying more attention.
Independents are a majority of voters, nearly double those that identify as Democrat
Hooray but it means NOTHING.
Get the fuck out and vote. Get your lazy ass friends and family to the polls ffs.
Legit my first thought was “why are we celebrating TV RATINGS like they somehow equate to voting?”
You can have 50,000,000 people watch the same TV show but not buy any merchandise. A lot won’t even have the ability to purchase something from the show.
And I sure plenty of people watching last night won’t be able to vote for one reason or another.
Legit my first thought was “why are we celebrating TV RATINGS like they somehow equate to voting?”
It’s Horse Race season. Barring anything really exciting like “her emails” all they have is polls. We’ll see hundreds of “Polls say this” and “Polls say that” headlines in the next 11 weeks.
I mean, the “front page” of lemmy is basically “POLLS? POLLS!” already but I’m positive it’ll get 10x worse.
pretty sure obama could stand up and talk about foot fungus for 2 hours and get higher ratings than anyone in the GOP
The only reason I care about this metric is because I know Trump is probably losing his mind over it <3
I remember how the qons kept talking about Biden was going to lose because “crowd sizes” or “enthusiasm” and that if he actually won, that was proof the election was stolen in 2020 because he was “campaigning from his basement”.
Where are all those people now, I wonder?
