Election Returns
May 18th, 2009 | by admin |Among the media that played main roles in the 2008 presidential elections of the US, the Net figured prominently in disseminating news to local and overseas viewers. The leading companies such as MSNBC, CNN and ABC News had record-breaking visits by viewers to their websites. Election returns had enthused the viewers here and overseas to such an extent.
According to the figures available, an unprecedented number of over 70 million viewers had watched election returns on cable TV and websites on the night of the presidential elections in the United States of America. This record shattering viewership is understandable taking into consideration the intense enthusiasm shown by the public in the battle for president between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.
There is absolutely no doubt that people used cable TV and websites of leading news companies to watch election returns though the Nielsen Media research don’t have the full viewership figures on both media. However, an estimated over 47 million people followed the results on TV, bringing that figure to be the highest recorded so far in the annals of the American president polls.
On this day of historic significance, such leading websites as Yahoo News posted an increase in views of their webs. This is a clear improvement of the viewership over the previous election days. Over fourteen networks that broadcast election returns were tracked by Nielson. All the electronic media found their records in history shattered with this.
In addition to the electronic media that were broadcasting 2008 US presidential election returns, some other websites supplied the viewers with past results of the presidential polls. These details, chiefly in PDF, were comprised of election returns, maps and statistical reports. These data were of use in comparing 2008 US presidential election results with those of past elections.
It was said that Barack Obama was not very willing to watch election returns on television. He was said to dislike the cable television babble. Anyhow, this could not stop his supporters from watching election returns of US presidential polls 2008 on TV and webs where Barack Obama came out the victor with a clear majority. People seem to have cared less about this trait in Barack Obama when voting for him.
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