Bush-Kerry Debate Draws 62.5 Million Viewers
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At least 62.5 million Americans tuned in to President Bush's debate with challenger John Kerry on Thursday, far surpassing the number who watched Bush's debates four years ago with Al Gore.
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John F. Kerry comes to the first of three presidential debates under pressure to rise to the moment. Over the past week, nearly a dozen national polls have been released.  When taken together, they suggest that President Bush is leading by five to six percentage points.
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When Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry appeared on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show last month, it drew 1.5 million viewers, about 400,000 more than its average for a night.
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Foreign viewers and analysts seemed to concur with their American counterparts on the debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry: Neither candidate made the kind of gaffe that will cost him the election, but Kerry fared slightly better.
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WASHINGTONâA series of post-debate polls have given George W. Bush a lead of two-to-eight percentage points over Democratic nominee John Kerry as the two men head into the final 15 days of the presidential campaign.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry battled over science, taxes and Iraq, as the spotlight of their newly tight race shifted to their running mates' only televised debate.
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Despite competition from two baseball playoff games, the third and final presidential debate, held Wednesday night in Tempe, drew more than 51 million viewers -- more
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Tuesday night's vice presidential debate didn't have the ratings gusto of last week's top-ticket tussle, but its 101 minutes outperformed the lone debate in 2000.
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Variety - More than 46.7 million viewers tuned in for the terse town hall debate between Sen. John Kerry and President Bush, a strong showing for a second presidential debate falling on the second-worst night in TV.
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US President George Bush and Sen. John Kerry gave Americans pretty much what the public expected in the first presidential debate.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry heads into tomorrow&#39;s first presidential debate trailing Republican President George W. Bush by six to eight points in most opinion polls.
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WASHINGTON - Leading into Friday night&#39;s second presidential debate, the poll numbers have flipped. The latest results from an Associated Press poll give John Kerry a slim lead over President Bush.
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NEW YORK - Friday's rematch between President Bush and John Kerry proved to be a livelier affair, and a more revealing show, than their first debate.    The big difference, of course, was the town-hall format that surrounded the two candidates with 140 voters, some of whom got to ask the questions they had brought...
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Despite competition from the baseball playoffs, five times as many television viewers watched Tuesday's vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards, Nielsen Media Research said.
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Thursday's presidential debate will draw a vast audience - and the strongest pressure is on Kerry.
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National snap polls showed Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry to be the hands-down winner in his televised debate with incumbent US President George W Bush and now a pair of post-debate polls show a shift in momentum among registered voters, as
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Nearly 44 million Americans tuned in to see Vice President Dick Cheney square off against Sen. John Edwards in the most watched debate between nominees for the No. 2 spot on the presidential ticket since 1992, ratings showed on Wednesday.