Thursday, October 13, 2016

Election minutiae: NFL being upstaged?

American football and U.S. elections simulate warfare constrained by a framework of rules. This chart of TV ratings suggests our present unruly fray is sucking our attention from one national pastime to the other.

Data via MMQB.

1 comment:

Brandon said...

The second debate dropped noticeably in the ratings, and the vice presidential debate was also low-rated.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/10/presidential-debate-tv-ratings-decline/