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McCain’s speech was expected to provide the climax to the four-day convention.
The change will give the speech a feel more like the town hall-style meetings the Republican presidential nominee is known for, aides say.
According to prepared remarks, Ridge will discuss McCain’s “unique qualifications for the presidency.” McCain’s speech comes a day after his vice presidential pick, Palin, delivered what some say was the most important speech of her life. (AP) John McCain’s service to America is expected to be one of the themes tonight during his speech that will close the GOP National Convention. The GOP onslaught, symbolized by a derisive ad comparing Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, has reduced Obama’s lead over McCain in the polling trend estimate computed by Pollster.com from 5.4 percentage points in late June to 1.4 percentage points as of Friday.() The GOP onslaught, symbolized by a derisive ad comparing Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, has reduced Obama’s lead over McCain in the polling trend estimate computed by Pollster.com from 5.4 percentage points in late June to 1.4 percentage points as of Friday.
‘Maverick’ Nominee, But Still Same GOP ‘Maverick’ Nominee, But Still Same GOP : Even though John McCain clinched the presidential nomination without winning a plurality of conservatives or self-identified Republicans in key states, most party leaders doubt that fundamental change is afoot.
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Republicans can only lie on this point. Luckily McCain got big ratings for his bumbling disaster of a speech trying to pretend his party isn’t complicit in the current state of washington.
Presidential candidate John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention drew more television viewers than his rival Barack Obama attracted at the Democratic party’s event last week, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
It’s the Stepford Wives that boosted John McCain’s acceptance speech rating. Prior to Sarah Palin they weren’t permitted to participate in politics.
All McCain had to do (Thursday night) to win in November is get a satisfactory rating from the person watching. Various polls show McCain (and Palin) achieved that with their speeches. Good try Obama, but it’s over - viewer ratings tell the story.
Wow this is shocking. Hope Obama realises that he is not running for President in Iran or Europe but for the wonderul country of USA.
If McCain’s veiwing numbers were higher than Obama’s in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida then it’s OVER for OBAMA. I just heard one of the best pollster/analysts in the country say considering the lead Obama supposedly has had over the past many weeks, for him to lose to McCain in viewer ratings gives us a peak into the cyrstal ball for November.
This is even more amazing when you consider that BET, Telemundo, TV One, and Univision channels covered Obamas speach but did not cover Palin’s or McCain’s speaches. They counted the viewers from these networks in the Obama Neilson ratings.
As it was explained, there’s no way McCain should have gotten higher ratings than Obama, if Obama was truly leading in the polls. The higher viewership for McCain gives away the publics opinion they are not satisfied with Obama and looking to McCain.
First off, the press is NOT afraid of bias - ratings me damned. McCain and Palin seem sincere in their speech.
What kind of change do Obamabots want?.pure socialism which will throw us into even deeper recession. I could care less how “boring” McCains speech was, and Obama who knows ZERO about the military wants us to have confidence in him handling Russia and a crazy Iran?! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER will I entrust my familys safety to a know nothing corrupt Chicago machine politician like Obama.
The Gallup poll has obama at 49% and McCain at 42%, and like tv viewership polling is out of date bc it only accesses land-lines and not cell phones. After McCain’s speech his campaign raised $1 mil while Obama’s raised $8 mil. Not only did McCain beat Obama, but Palin also beat Obama by 2 million viewers despite that fact that 4 fewer networks showed Palin’s speech than Obamas.
The Nobama supporters crack me up when they say that all Palin can do is a give a speech. McCain and Palin have actually been doing their duty as representatives of their constituents.
Yeah, there would be more people watching McCain speech, because the uneducated masses want to see more Palin.
Anyone wonder if people tuned in to both Sen. McCain and Sarah Palin to see if they’d botch their speeches? McCain had some trouble with his speech, and Sarah Palin came across to some as unqualified to make attacks on people she barely knows.
I was voting for Obama but McCain and Palin’s speeches have just changed my mind. It was bothering me that Obama never really said what he would do - and the over the top speech set up repulsed me.
Excellent news for Obama! After that lead balloon of a speech, I’m betting that the McCain campaign is wishing that far fewer people tuned in.
I watched the speech last night and I thought McCain did fairly well. Even with that large television audience, I am not sure he changed many minds.
ABC”s showing of the McCain speech averaged a 4.5/7, down 2% from the same night of the Democratic convention last week, while CBS” coverage took in a 3.4/5, an increase of 3%.
Biden also said McCain didn’t address education or energy. Obviously Biden can’t shut his pie-hole long enough to listen, because McCain addressed both of those in his speech.
This speech was a winner because it was personally substantive and, unlike the Obama address, not built on spectacle. Agree or disagree with his politics, but it was an honest, and, for me anyway, a sometimes moving look into the man himself.
I support Barack Obama and I watched his acceptance speech and John McCain’s.
I am a twenty-something and watched obama’s speech on the internet. and “After McCain’s speech his campaign raised $1 mil while Obama’s raised $8 mil.”
McCain’s speech is brilliant. He has been praticing for four years and she kicked his butt.
Maybe it’s not a great thing for McCain? I fell asleep during the speech.
It’s been reported that Less Republicans supporting McCain watched Obama’s speech. Sarah’s speech was powerfully moving and John McCain’s was unapologetically patriotic.
That’s nice that Obama beat American Idol in the ratings, but he couldn’t beat McCain and barely beat Palin.
Mr. Hillary said it best when she said, “McCain will bring a lifetime of experienceObama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002.”
Just like “Bushie” couldn’t get rid of Rumsfeld, McCain can’t get rid of his “Lobby”.
I personally like the young man with the banner exclaiming that McCain voted against veterans. Good one, considering his whole speech centered around the “I’m a POW” theme.
Prediction: There will be little to no bounce out of tonight; indeed, McCain’s speech will smother Palin’s sizzle like a wet blanket.
McCain’s speech and mannerisms were wooden and flat (Al Gore x12). I couldn’t understand why people were giving him a standing ovation every few sentences.
This morning’s NPR news report on McCain’s speech left listeners with the impression that the speech got good reviews.
McCain will, the football viewers will tune in to see his speech, and others will tune in that didnt watch the game. Not voting for McCain, so I can just watch the clips of his speech on the various news channels.
And I guess — you hope, if you’re John McCain, you say, “He’s on my side.”
That is what I see as the limitations of an otherwise very successful speech.
Palin has successfully solidified McCain’s conservative base. She really gave a speech last night that echoed Pat Buchanan’s 1992 culture wars speech, but she did it more elegantly.
The mission here was to deal with the Republican base. It was a very enterprising Republican speech in the policy parts of it, emphasizing cutting taxes or keeping taxes low, cutting government spending, anti-bureaucracy, and choice.
Analysts Mark Shields, David Brooks and a panel of historians discuss the strengths and weaknesses of John McCain’s acceptance speech and the GOP message of “change” in Washington.
It was a great speech, Jim, easily the greatest speech that John McCain ever gave.
As far as McCain goes, he seriously needs to get rid of whoever handles the logistics on his campaign.
Among unaffiliated voters, favorable opinions of McCain have increased by eleven percentage points in a week”from 54% before the Palin announcement to 65% today. By way of comparison, on the night after Biden gave his acceptance speech, 47% said that Obama made the right choice.
Listen, I’ll admit McCain’s speech didn’t have the aesthetics that others had, but it’s McCain he’s never been pretty and he doesn’t hide it b/c he doesn’t care. McCain’s speech was in pedestrian terms - GREAT - the average american knows what he stands for.
True Republicans are to far Right and True Democrats are to far to the Left, McCain and Palin are perfect they want to utilize both positive policies of both parties. McCain and Palin are both very appealing to the electorate, compared to Obama who is the unknown, untested and inexperienced Democratic Leader.
I also heard today that Mistress Oprah will not let McCain or Palin on het tv shoe. She has the right not to let people on that she dosen’t want on her show, but it makes her look petty and small.
McCain should show Obama tax proposals in complete numbers including feds, state by state tax plus payroll taxes what people will be paying with Obama in WH. Because even after the Bush tax cut I think we pay one of the highest tax in industrial world, if I combine all taxes together which we should.
Obama tried to be all things to all people and it has failed. Obama is for the people, the people that are in his inner circle where as McCain is for the people, ALL the people and I think that makes a difference.
McCain believes that this country and its people are inherently good and that its people strive for equality and justice.
Democrats are definitely watching and learning that McCain is NOT McBush. It will be fun to watch, as Biden is now handcuffed in the debates, and in my opinion even though Mccain is boring in delivery Obama can not think well on his feet if it is not scripted.
As a Republican I breathed a sigh of relief when Obama picked Biden. McCain’s choice for a VP may very well be strategic but it shows he’s thinking and he has a strategy.
The harder the Media push Obama the more the American people wake up! I didn’t like McCain at first but the more the liberals beat the tar out of him the more I am defending him.
Obama tries to scare people by saying with McCain in it will be 4 more years of Bush.
McCain has earned the presidency. It seems the President has been working over time lately to push for some positive changes there and bring peace, and all McCain wants to do is associate himself with this weeks victories, not those of the past 6 years.
Undecided in Arizona –we all know allot about McCain, sorry to say he lacks support. McCain waited until the Obama Picked a old man, then he pounced on this and chose a energetic Woman Palin.
I would be interested to know how many people watch Obama online vs. I don’t see this with Obama.
After comparing the speeches and policies of McCain and Obama, it’s apparent that Obama is as far left as you can get and McCain is more middle of the road.
Keep on attacking Sarah, you mo-rawns in the liberal Obama media. You’re just going to keep up the interest on McCain and Plain and keep driving their poll numbers up.
Obama comes across as young, overly ambitious and self-centered. If the media becomes fanatical over an individual candidate the way they have with Obama, he is probably too liberal for me.
I now know why Obama was so Hell-bent to run against George W Bush. He can’t compare to McCain - he’s not even in the same zip code.
McCain convinced me. They share a party, but don’t otherwise get along.
Someone pointed out that although McCain voted 90% with Bush, Obama voted 87% with McCain.
By my count - if Obama drew 40 mil and McCain 40 mil or slightly more - that’s about 60 million Obama voters and 20 for the Maverick.
For example: couldn’t one accurately say now that it’s McCain that is the empty-headed celebrity, not Obama? These numbers should mean more to a TV executive than an everyday voter.
Most Americans know McCain is an orginal. only blind Obama cult members can’t see it.
McCain was up at NBC, which had the football lead-in. Those viewers may simply have watched Obama on cable last week.
Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin trump Michelle Obama and Joe Biden’s wife in a beauty contest any day.
I join McCain and Palin in the fight. I am charged - I saw a new vision for us, as I listened to McCain and you look at how Sarah has lived her life.
It is hilarious reading how some feel McCain chose Palin because he wants woman to blindly vote for her. Not only that, they tossed Hillary Clinton, love her or hate her, a woman who has been a loyal democrat for decades, right under the bus.
The Democrats should be scarred, we could be seeing the beginning of eight years of McCain the another eight years of Palin.
The speeches by McCain and Palin had no substance other than speak directly to the base that hates America.
Both Sara Palin and John McCain gave good Republican speeches, all emotion, few facts, a lot of half- truths and some out and out lies. It was really funny to see the same people who cheered bush on Tuesday, cheer for McCain as he blasted bush and the party.
I watched McCain simply because he really “SCARES” me. Some of the time he really seems that he dosen’t have a clue.
If McCain continues to refuse addressing the immigration problem by election time, I’ll have no alternative, but to throw away my vote and write-in Vladimir Putin.
I know no one believes this. McCain and Friends did nothing but talk about Vietnam, its heroes and supposed heroes, leaving out the fact that they attack, on a whim, others that served in Vietnam and do not agree with them on policy or the war.
The tide has turned after very strong performances by Palin and McCain. This completes the McCain-Palin-Bush ticket: we’ve got Bush policies (big oil tax cuts, more military) married to Bush politics (firing law enforcement that don’t toe the line and continued destruction of the rule of law).
Democrats who were probably made up a significant part of the TV audience were watching to see what McCain had to say, looking for more specific answers to the issues. A smart voter is going to compare the platforms of both candidates.
I am also surprised on how well McCain did. I am glad that voters were open-minded and gave him a chance, too.
Oh McCain, how much do you have to lie to win? McCain the “change” candidate picked a young, up and coming, female, Washington OUTSIDER.
After listening to McCain and Plain in the past two days, it seems to me that theirs is the birth of a new third party.
Im not shocked. Its obvious Mccain can back up his speeches with details.
McCain is a real man, reminiscent of the great heroes of America’s past. I thought the football game would hurt by doesn’t look like it.
Is it at all possible that I didn’t have to “buy into the lies” for or against Obama to know that I am votin for McCain.
All Biden and Obama could say about McCain’s and Palin’s speeches was that they didn’t talk about “the middle class”.
Not all of this will be fixed in the next 4 years no matter who we elect, but I don’t see how anyone can listen to that speech, look at the last 8 years and honestly say we need to “stay the course”.
I’m a staunch Obama supporter yet I watched the speech last night for comic relief. It was all just to bash Obama.
Does everyone realize Obama had every speech written for him. I watched Senator McCains’ speech because it was history, not because I was going to vote for him(or even open to voting for him). Where “few facts” were notice by you on the Republican speeches NO facts were present on Obama’s nor Biden’s speech.
Kedren, I think that George Soros and Hollywood friends donated several millions to Obama after Palin’s speech to make it look like it did.
An interesting sidebar to this is the donations that flooded into Obama’s coffers after Palin’s speech. It’s not much of a stretch to come to the conclusion that a large percentage of the 10m in donation was from people who watched the speech and were moved to donate to the other side.
If that doesn’t prove media bias I don’t know what will. Four networks refused to broadcast Palin’s speech when they did show Obama’s.
I don’t know about Obama’s speech night because I only watched one news station.
It’s sad that so many of you bought what they were selling.
Thank God for McCain and his foresight in picking Palin, for VP, she and her family is real and a family like most of the American family.
if that’s true Obama’s story is noun, verb, Community Organizer.
Oh that was John McCain. Palin has certainly added interest to the ticket and made McCain’s message as a maverick and a change agent register.
looks like your support has been fruitless.
Final comment: For a bunch of people who profess to hate the “liberal media” so much, you do seem awfully obsessed with things like ratings.
I always watch both conventions.
I don’t know if you could a rating lower than zero but I think it would be close.
Blame Bush. Remember congress makes laws not the president.
I think a lot of people like myself were just curious in knowing that McCain’s Camp would be pulling the same old mantra! It was mostly a rerun, retread of a lot of old Republican ideas that have brought us to where we are now.
David Gergen thought the speech repeated the same old GOP ideas: I did not think that the substantive part of the speech worked ver.
I thought it was the worst speech by a nominee that I’ve heard since Jimmy Carter in 1980. It’s not over yet but this is a very underwhelming speech.
Below the video is text of Sarah Palin’s speech. Towards the end of the McCain tribute video, the screen went dark, but the narrating audio continued to play.
As Colbert said, McCains voice makes the hum of a refrigerator coil sound like Martin Luther King.
You have the freedom to blog and watch football games because of heroes like John McCain.
John Kennedy, McCain talked tonight about getting this country moving again.
You can feel it tonight. It’s John McCain is running as John McCain.
I think one of the things that we would have expected perhaps least would be that John McCain would be quoting Al Gore.
He’s been doing it.
I think what burns through the speech and which people will remember is the intense desire to rise above the last eight years. Following the Wednesday night speech, voters are fairly evenly divided as to whether Palin or Obama has the better experience to be President.
Among unaffiliated voters, 45% say Obama has better experience while 42% say Palin. Now, following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters.
The figures include 40% with a Very Favorable opinion of Palin and 18% with a Very Unfavorable view (full demographic crosstabs are available for Premium Members). Before her acceptance speech, Palin was viewed favorably by 52%.
If I was Obama, I would hire GOPeach to go around the country promoting McCain and Palin. The landslide for him would be huge.
Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans say that McCain made the right choice while just 69% of Democrats said the same about Obama. Among unaffiliated voters, 52% said that McCain made the right choice for his running mate and 45% said the same about Obama.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows that Obama continues to lead McCain among women voters while McCain leads among men.
As of Friday morning, Obama and McCain are each viewed favorably by 57% of voters.
I also think they intentionally wanted it to not look like a perfectly executed Hollywoodesque production to contrast McCain and Obama. It’s like they had two different campaigns set up the staging and writing the speeches for Palin and McCain.
Thought the speeches of McCain, Palin, Guiliani, Huckabee were particularly strong and memorable. Romney’s speaking style not the greatest, but he showed intelligence and genuineness.
No Hillary supporter is going to switch over to McCain just because of Palin. Then I saw her speak last (Wed.) night.
The new data also shows significant increases in the number who say McCain made the right choice and the number who say Palin is ready to be President.
Whateverwe’ll see how this all shakes out in a couple of weeks.
Did I miss something - Obama is running for President, Palin is running for Vice President. It doesn’t so he is pitting himself against Palin - who still trumps him.
Watching McCain’s biographical video and then comparing it to Obama’s, whose work experience is community organizer, made me remember what a light-weight joke Obama is. Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said
What’s scary is the Nielson ratings for Palin came close to Obama - and forget about Biden’s ratings.
Generally, John McCain”s choice of Palin earns slightly better reviews than Barack Obama”s choice of Joe Biden.
With more than a fourth of the nation tuned in, it may be the most watched convention speech ever. It nearly doubled the number of people watching John Kerry’s acceptance speech four years ago (possibly having something to do with realative strengths of oratory).”
How much will Obama’s convention speech beat McCain’s in TV ratings?
