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Biden, Palin draw huge ratings in debate

Published: Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008 12:53 a.m. MDT
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NEW YORK — Who's running for president, anyway?

More than 70 million people watched Thursday's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin on television, far more than the audience for the first contest featuring the top of the tickets.

That would make it the second most-watched political debate ever, behind only the 80.6 million people who watched President Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan in their only 1980 encounter, according to Nielsen Media Research.

When John McCain and Barack Obama met in their first debate on Sept. 26, Nielsen recorded 52.4 million viewers. They will have two more debates, the first of them next Tuesday.

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at the end of the day...while being totally blinded by...

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