The Nielsen ratings for the final night of the RNC are out and it looks like McCain topped the charts: Nielsen just released the ratings for Day 4 of the GOP convention. Among the highlights:
* More than half a million more people watched John McCain's acceptance speech (38.9 million) than Barak Obama's the week before (38.4 million). * Regarding the gender gap, significantly more men (17.9 million) watched McCain's speech than Obama's (16.2 million), while more women watched Obama's speech (19.9 million) than McCain's (19.2 million). * More than 5 million more white viewers watched the McCain speech (32.2 million) than the Obama speech (27.0 million). Among African Americans, the reverse was true, with 4.5 million more African Americans watching Obama (7.5 million) than McCain (3.1 million)
