According to the Nielsen ratings, Wednesday’s final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama was viewed by 56.5 million people – impressive considering it was competing with baseball, but nowhere near, say, Super Bowl viewership. The audiences for their first and second debates were 52.4 million and 63.2 million, respectively. The vice presidential face-off between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden (in photo) remains king, with 69.9 million viewers (which was 6 million fewer than for the “Seinfeld” finale in 1998).
Democrat Hillary Clinton is credited with putting 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling of the U.S. presidency, but she isn’t ready to credit Republican Sarah Palin for finishing the job. “Really, no one will shatter that ceiling until we have a woman serving as president or vice president,” Clinton told CNN. And though it’s exciting to see a woman on the GOP ticket, she said, “I would like to see the very first woman in the White House who I agree with and who I think has policies that would really fulfill the goals that I have for our country.”
According to the Nielsen ratings, Wednesday’s final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama was viewed by 56.5 million people – impressive considering it was competing with baseball, but nowhere near, say, Super Bowl viewership. The audiences for their first and second debates were 52.4 million and 63.2 million, respectively. The vice presidential face-off between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden (in photo) remains king, with 69.9 million viewers (which was 6 million fewer than for the “Seinfeld” finale in 1998).
