I mean. It's going to every night, and I'd be real surprised if the RNC ever had more viewers....
Democrats are the majority of voters, Republicans live in the areas with the majority of empty land.
Unfortunately we dont live in a straight democracy
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If only we could make Republicans think that means we live in a gay democracy, because it's not straight...
I think Republicans are also generally disengaged. That's what enables them to vote for so much monstrous garbage; they don't pay enough attention to know what they're voting for. There are also plenty of true believers who really are christian nationalists, but for most people, if they follow the policy positions, they'd be Democrats.
So when it comes to the number of people watching a convention, the DNC sorta naturally attracts more people since the base is paying more attention.
Hooray but it means NOTHING.
Get the fuck out and vote. Get your lazy ass friends and family to the polls ffs.
The two good things about high ratings are:
- It shows engagement is high
- It's the kind of metric that Trump cares deeply about
But yes, polls, ratings, news articles, and all those things didn't matter, just election votes matter.
Legit my first thought was "why are we celebrating TV RATINGS like they somehow equate to voting?"
You can have 50,000,000 people watch the same TV show but not buy any merchandise. A lot won't even have the ability to purchase something from the show.
And I sure plenty of people watching last night won't be able to vote for one reason or another.
Legit my first thought was "why are we celebrating TV RATINGS like they somehow equate to voting?"
It's Horse Race season. Barring anything really exciting like "her emails" all they have is polls. We'll see hundreds of "Polls say this" and "Polls say that" headlines in the next 11 weeks.
I mean, the "front page" of lemmy is basically "POLLS? POLLS!" already but I'm positive it'll get 10x worse.
Yup.
What? They equate more to a poll. Why would anyone equate it to voting? Wtf?
I remember how the qons kept talking about Biden was going to lose because "crowd sizes" or "enthusiasm" and that if he actually won, that was proof the election was stolen in 2020 because he was "campaigning from his basement".
Where are all those people now, I wonder?
Still in St. Petersburg where they always were, hoping Vova doesn't send them to a border checkpoint.
Being used as cannon fodder in Russia.
The only reason I care about this metric is because I know Trump is probably losing his mind over it <3
I watched the video of Obama's speech on yt last night. Great speech, but what struck me most was how many obvious bot accounts were trying to spread negative messaging about Democrats in the comments.
Now yt comment sections aren't exactly known for being a great place to discuss things but I've never seen that amount of blatant astroturfing all in one place. I scrolled through over a hundred of the top comments and 80% were from accounts with the "firstname-lastname-4digit#" type of username and little or no account activity aside from comments. This was 3 hours after the video was originally posted.
We really need to address bot activity on the internet because people are way too easily swayed by stuff like that. We're making it almost trivial for bad actors to control the narrative in ways that are not good for society.
Pretty sure all these stupid posts are just the media punishing the weak and weird mind of some egotistical psychopath who would care about "ratings" , "crowd size" and "popularity". Any idea who?
it's probably even more since the majority of the audience probably watched the kamalaharris or demconvention live streams.
Glad the DNC has.