Nielson Ratings

Nielson ratings are coming in for GOP Convention. This seems to jibe with the enthusiasm gap we’ve been seeing, Gustav probably had an impact as well. Numbers should be up for last night’s wingnut lovefest. We’ll see…

• Overall viewing was more than 4.3 million people lower than the second day of the Democratic convention, and 600,000 people lower than the second day of the GOP convention four years ago.
• More women (11.2 million) than men (9.5 million) watched the GOP convention, a similar trend as found for the Democrats this year.
• African American viewing of the GOP convention (2.1 million) is less than half what is was for the Democratic convention (4.6 million)