Big Numbers for Clinton, Obama Debate (8.3 million)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) - An estimated 8.3 million television viewers watched Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debate Thursday night in California, more than double the audience for Republican candidates the night before.

The CNN audience for Clinton and Obama's debate, the first one-on-one contest for Democrats now that John Edwards has dropped out, was second only to the 9.4 million people who watched the Democrats on ABC Jan. 5, according to Nielsen Media Research.

CNN also televised a Republican debate Wednesday night, highlighted by contentious exchanges between John McCain and Mitt Romney, that was watched by 4 million viewers, Nielsen said.

The Democratic debate eclipsed, by far, any other political debate ever shown just on cable television. The previous high was the Democratic debate in South Carolina on Jan. 21, seen by 4.9 million people.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080201/D8UHOMH82.html

[madrchsod]

1. 16 million watched "lost"!

that`s pretty good numbers for a debate on cnn,not bad at all

[Auggie]

2. That's a good sign.

Shows people are actually interested. And those are cable numbers, no less.

[MadMaddie]

3. Do you know what the numbers were for the Rethuglicans?

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Uh, it says it righ there in the story

You can't read through 3 paragraphs before commenting?

[MadMaddie]

5. I am so damned tired tonight I glossed right over it...

:crazy: