John McCain’s peace summit visit to CBS’ “Late Show” gave David Letterman his highest viewership in nearly three years.
The Thursday night telecast was seen by 6.5 million viewers, and received a 1.7 rating in the adult demo. That’s the largest audience for the show since December, 2005, when Oprah Winfrey appeared. “Late Show” also topped Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” (4.6 million viewers) by 43%, and Leno had Joe Biden as a guest.
“Can I give you an answer?” says McCain when ribbed about his previous appearance cancellation. “I screwed up.”
When you couple this with the rather large and enthusiastic crowds being drawn by both McCain and Palin, I begin to perceive an enthusiasm shift – could be that GOPers come out to the polls as they did in 2004, and markedly failed to do in 2006. If the GOP has a 2004 turnout, coupled with McCain’s appeal to moderate Democrats, then the results on November 4th could make for a lot of very, very depressed MSMers…
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