Nobody Watched The Democratic Debate Last Night
Brian Anderson
February 5, 2016
Last night in New Hampshire Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders spent 2 hours yelling at each other, arguing which one was the bigger left-wing progressive lunatic. It turns out it was a tie. You’ll have to take my word for it because, like almost everyone else, you didn’t watch the democratic debate.
The ratings are in for the MSNBC hosted event and they aren’t good. Only 4.5 million people tuned in to watch a socialist kook and a brain-damaged grandma battle for the democratic nomination. Sure, 4.5 million viewers is a shitload for MSNBC, a network that no one watches, but for a major political party debate, it’s downright pathetic.
The DNC and their bat-shit crazy leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz have been criticized for holding the democratic debates on weekends, opposite major sporting events, and over holidays when people are unlikely to watch. Thursday’s debate was in prime-time and it still managed to come in as the least viewed of this election cycle.
The first democratic debate in October on CNN drew 15 million viewers.
The November debate on CBS attracted 8.5 million people.
The December debate on ABC brought 8 million viewers.
For the January debate on NBC, 10 million people watched.
I think it’s pretty clear what’s going on here: Now that Martin O’Malley has dropped out of the race, nobody is watching the democratic debates anymore. Who wouldn’t want to watch the doofus former Governor stand silently at the podium while the moderators completely ignore him? Considering the ridiculous way they tabulate the ratings, it is possible that if both of O’Malley’s supporters decided to tune out it could account for a huge drop in viewers.
So 4.5 million is a pretty bad number, but it looks worse when you compare it to the GOP debate numbers:
August 6, 2015 – Cleveland, OH – Fox News Channel: 25 million viewers
September 16, 2015 – Simi Valley, CA – CNN: 23 million viewers
October 28, 2015 – Boulder, CO – CNBC: 14 million viewers
November 10, 2015 – Milwaukee, WI – Fox Business Network: 13.5 million viewers
December 15, 2015 – Nevada – CNN: 18 million viewers
January 14, 2016 – South Carolina – Fox Business Network: 11.1 million viewers
January 22, 2016 – Iowa – Fox News Channel: 12.5 million viewers
That last GOP debate was Trumpless and it still killed the democratic debate featuring their top candidates. 4.5 million viewers isn’t even good enough to beat most of the GOP undercard debates.
These numbers confirm what I’ve believed all along: liberals have no passion for the things they claim to care about. Kind of like how they say most Americans support gun control but only a handful of soccer moms show up to a Moms Demand Action anti-gun rally. If only 4.5 million people tuned in to last night’s democratic debate, obviously very few people are excited by the thought of a Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders presidency.
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