Democratic presidential candidates debated each other on Saturday, November 14. According to this story, only 8,500,000 people watched. By contrast, the first two Republican debates had 20,000,000 viewers, and the third and fourth Republican debates had 13,000,000 viewers.
This suggests that debates get more viewers when more candidates participate. All of the mainstream Republican debates have had either ten or eight candidates, whereas the most recent Democratic debate had only three.
Saturday night was not a good choice of times.
Bob Richard is correct. There were a lot of good college football games competing.
It was also overshadowed by the events in Paris. I bet that a lot of the TV-watching audience was turned to the news.
It might also “suggest” that the meme of the “inevitability” of Clinton’s nomination has been accepted as fact.
If Professor Lessig was also on that stage, there would have been an extra million viewers.