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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum“I guess Christmas Eve was booked.” —Bernie Sanders aide Michael Briggs on Saturday night debates.
That was a good debate.
Lets have some more of them.
Lets have a lot more of them.
And lets have a lot more of them on weeknights, when viewership, listenership and general attention is likely to be dramatically greater than on ratings-disaster weekend nights.
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Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her aides beg to differ, as they prattle on about robust viewership.
Thats just silly. The latest debate attracted a mere 6.71 million viewers, the lowest number so far for any 2016 debate organized by the DNC or the RNC. Saturday nights debate was such a flop that it barely attracted one quarter of the viewership of the most watched Republican debate.
I guess Christmas Eve was booked. Bernie Sanders aide Michael Briggs on Saturday night debates.
A Christmas Special debate, scheduled to compete with last-minute shopping, partying, and traveling was never going to rival the ratings for the various and sundry Republican debateswhich so far have been held on a Thursday night, a Wednesday night, a Wednesday night, a Tuesday night, and a Tuesday night.
The response of the OMalley campaign to those numbers was the right one: We cant fool ourselvesthe Republicans are eating our lunch in terms of attention and viewership because of the unprecedented, unilateral, and arbitrary way the DNC Chair determined this schedule, said OMalley deputy campaign manager Lis Smith.
THE REST:
http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-debate-in-the-shadows-of-a-saturday-night-before-christmas/
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/21/1462388/-John-Nichols-Nails-It-Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz-Is-A-YUGE-Loser
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“I guess Christmas Eve was booked.” —Bernie Sanders aide Michael Briggs on Saturday night debates. (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2015
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(46,179 posts)1. "I guess Christmas Eve was booked."
Kensan
(180 posts)2. Officer Barbrady says....
Alright, move along. There's nothing to see here.
DWS has scheduled the next debate to be January 17. The SUNDAY of a three-day holiday weekend. I'm sure that will garner a ton of viewership. She must be counting on the NFL playoffs to be a great lead-in. I'm sure she wouldn't dream of actually trying to have the debate compete head-to-head against the NFL. Talk about not understanding the American public!! I'm guessing the next debate has an even smaller viewership rating. So much for building up the party, and creating some enthusiasm.
This would all be comical if there were no real world consequences as a result of the upcoming elections.