As I understand it, not only did the main debate get ridiculously more people watching it than did Stewart: the undercard debate actually had more watchers than Stewart, too. This relieves me, honestly. Because whatever you thought about the debates last night, they had a lot more semantic content in them than did Jon Stewart’s nightly Punch-and-Judy show. I’m honestly relieved that a large number of citizens in the Republic apparently agree with me.
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There was more diverse talents, outlooks, backgrounds, accomplishments, and ability than the Democrats can muster on their best day.
This is surprising?
In the years that it’s been on, I’ve only known two people who watched it even sporadically.
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I always figured it was like Girls. Poor ratings, but something our self-declared “betters” approve of.
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But hey, half the population lives in a tiny slice of urban blight. Willingly. It’s possible that he was actually popular in some demographic I’m not familiar with.
I’ve been around a lot of 20something grad students recently, in various fields. Lots of “I love Jon Stewart” kinds of comments, but now that I think about it, I can’t think of a single “Did you see Jon Stewart last night? It was great! He …” conversation.
What that means, I have no idea.
It means a lot of people watched CLIPS of Jon Stewart on YouTube. But no one went out of their way to follow his show, except for people even deeper into political geekdom than us.