Remarkably, Drudge is reporting that Palin’s speech last night drew 37,244,000 viewers, just about one million less than tuned in for Obama’s the week before, which was hyped up far more in terms of its historical nature.
No doubt, the manufactured controversies over Palin’s family helped boost that, but that’s a pretty phenomenal turnout for GOP campaign that is supposedly in so much trouble.
It remains to be seen if her tough, small-town executive mom persona will connect with the swing voters the way I think it should. But overall I think it was a great night for a lot folks to tune into the GOP and catch something they may not have expected: a lot of humor, warmth and grit in the midst of so much hostile and dismissive editorial coverage. Hopefully they also caught some of Giuliani’s sublime smackdown just before it.
UPDATE: Apparently those numbers are only for the major commerical networks. Turns out both speeches atttracted more than 40 million viewers, when you include PBS and smaller cable networks.
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