Friday, October 5, 2012

Presidential Debate Drew More Than 70 Million Viewers

Presidential Debate Drew More Than 70 Million Viewers. By BRIAN STELTER. The first of three presidential debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney reached more than 70 million viewers on Wednesday night. Nielsen, a television measurementAfter watching the former Massachusetts governor go toe to toe with Barack Obama, the Republicans on the eight-member panel that watched the first presidential debate at The Standard-Times believed Mitt Romney had more than held his own with a glibDuring Wednesdayís debate with President Barack Obama, Romney called for cutting federal funding to PBS, despite saying, ìI love Big Bird.î It renewed a long-running debate over subsidies to public broadcasting. ìIím going to stop the subsidy to PBS,îGovernor Mitt Romney's tax plan would burden the middle class. Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama. President Obama: “ ndependent studies looking at this said the only way to meet Governor Romney's pledge of not reducing the deficit or—or—or notNielsen, a television measurement company, said that 67.2 million viewers watched on television, but its total did not count any of the millions of people who had access to the debate on computers, tablets or phones.
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