Good News for Obama: "The Speech" Was Watched by 38 Million

Published Aug 29 2008, 02:25 PM by Steven Stark

Good news for the Obama campaign: Last night's speech attracted an audience of 38 million -- more than 50% higher than the number who watched John Kerry four years ago. As we noted earlier, it wasn't his best speech of the campaign and it wasn't even the best speech of the convention. But it was decent enough that it had to impress some of those new viewers. Let's see how the convention bounce plays out over the next few days -- especially as a GOP convention bound to attract fewer viewers gets going.

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LorenzoJennifer said:

"He's too young," some say. "He's too inexperienced," others comment. "He's not ready to lead" say still more. Last night, Barack Obama stood and spoke before a backdrop consisting of Palladian-style architecture and a store-front White House that gave him more "gravitas" than he'll ever need. Gone was the tie-less youthful candidate whose lyrical rhetoric was punctuated by the Obama Girl. He addressed a panorama of national issues in measured tones, articulating a vision that connected his personal biography with members of the voting public, a technique perhaps borrowed from Joe Biden. Barack Hussein Obama, last night, demonstrated that he was quite competent and comfortable in delivering a State of the Union address. As Jack Nicholson would put it, "Auspicious beginnings."

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Good News for Obama: "The Speech" Was Watched by 38 Million

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