“I guess Christmas Eve was booked.” —Bernie Sanders aide Michael Briggs on Saturday night debates.

[kpete]

That was a good debate.

Let’s have some more of them.

Let’s have a lot more of them.

 And let’s have a lot more of them on weeknights, when viewership, listenership and general attention is likely to be dramatically greater than on “ratings-disaster” weekend nights.

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 Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her aides beg to differ, as they prattle on about “robust” viewership.

That’s just silly. The latest debate attracted a mere 6.71 million viewers, the lowest number so far for any 2016 debate organized by the DNC or the RNC. Saturday night’s debate was such a flop that it barely attracted one quarter of the viewership of the most watched Republican debate.

“I guess Christmas Eve was booked.” —Bernie Sanders aide Michael Briggs on Saturday night debates.

A “Christmas Special” debate, scheduled to compete with last-minute shopping, partying, and traveling was never going to rival the ratings for the various and sundry Republican debates—which so far have been held on a Thursday night, a Wednesday night, a Wednesday night, a Tuesday night, and a Tuesday night.

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 The response of the O’Malley campaign to those numbers was the right one: “We can’t fool ourselves—the Republicans are eating our lunch in terms of attention and viewership because of the unprecedented, unilateral, and arbitrary way the DNC Chair determined this schedule,” said O’Malley deputy campaign manager Lis Smith.

THE REST:
http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-debate-in-the-shadows-of-a-saturday-night-before-christmas/
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/21/1462388/-John-Nichols-Nails-It-Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz-Is-A-YUGE-Loser

[LWolf]

1. "I guess Christmas Eve was booked."

[Kensan]

2. Officer Barbrady says....

Alright, move along. There's nothing to see here.

DWS has scheduled the next debate to be January 17. The SUNDAY of a three-day holiday weekend. I'm sure that will garner a ton of viewership. She must be counting on the NFL playoffs to be a great lead-in. I'm sure she wouldn't dream of actually trying to have the debate compete head-to-head against the NFL. Talk about not understanding the American public!! I'm guessing the next debate has an even smaller viewership rating. So much for building up the party, and creating some enthusiasm.

This would all be comical if there were no real world consequences as a result of the upcoming elections.