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During the 2008 presidential election polls in the USA, electronic media, especially the Internet, played a leading role in bringing the election results to the national and international 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.
On the election night in the USA, the figures had it that over seventy million people had viewed election returns on cable television and webs. The contest between Democrat Barack Obama and republican John McCain for the presidency had generated such intense interest in the people that every viewership record has been broken.
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. Anyway, over seventy million viewers had watched the outcome of the polls on television making it the highest number in the history of US presidential polls.
Top sites such as Yahoo News recorded a boost in traffic to their sites on this historical day in the USA. This is a clear improvement of the viewership over the previous election days. Nielsen monitored the viewership of 14 networks that broadcast election returns. 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 data were available in the form of maps, statistical reports, and election returns mostly in PDF formats. 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. The reason was that he was averse to listening to cable TV chatter. 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. Voters appear to have paid little attention to this characteristic of Obama when casting their votes for Obama.
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.
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