If President Obama were a television show, the network executives might start holding some serious meetings about how to turn his ratings around.

Tuesday's State of the Union address was the third consecutive year Obama's overall audience has shrunk, even though the speech was carried on more networks than ever before.

37.569 million viewers tuned in to the speech, according to Nielsen's ratings, released late Wednesday.

That translated into a 24.0 rating -- better than American Idol's,...

Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
I don't know if a Web blog called "2012 decoded" is much of a source... recent polling shows Obama rising in favorability, and a CBS poll showed a 91% approval of his SOTA speech. If you want to see a rating's collapse, just look at the GOP 2012 candidates approval ratings. Instead of getting behind a real conservative (Paul) they are giving us more corporate shills.

And it has value.

Originally posted by Vitchilo
reply to post by Blackmarketeer

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If 91% of people BELIEVED Obama in his SOTU, America is really screwed and there's no hope.

They might have agreed, but it's a whole another thing to BELIEVE the crap he's spouting.

And it has value.

Yeah. As fertilizer.

edit on 26-1-2012 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)

but you CANNOT base your choice for president off TV ratings.

Originally posted by KonquestAbySS
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but you CANNOT base your choice for president off TV ratings.

Sure you can especially if most of the Americans are tuned into the tube, and are actually realizing what the hell is going on, that may just be a sign that people are beginning to wake up, and becoming more aware of the poisonous food for thought these politicians are feeding us. Only time will tell now.