How many viewers will the 1st. Clinton/Trump debate attract?

With so much at stake ,,the debate should attract millions and millions of viewers.

Will the debate viewership make it the most watched television program ever ?

Your predictions...over or under 100 million viewers ?

I'd venture a guess that the first debate will slightly top 100 million, and then have a precipitous drop thereafter. 

Hopefully Hillary goes into one of.her fainting spells. That make.it.must.see.tv.

I'm going to put the game on mute on one tv and watch the debate with my second tv with the volume up. I predict it will be close to a 100 million. It's hard for me to say the over.

I agree with you about the Monday Nite Football not being a great prime time match-up  .,but it's still a MNF game ( with money bet) so I feel they should draw close to 10 million..this I feel will keep the viewers under 100M....

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2016 Super Bowl drew 112.9M..third-best audience in U.S. TV history.......and it was the only game in town..

By the way,, I hear they will stand for the hour and a half with only two coughing timeouts..

i will continue my streak of never watching one minute of this debate or any other.  i will be watching the MNF game with a large bet on whichever team is released as the lockpick by Hugh Jorman Sports.

i will make my decision as to who won the debate based on commentary from slim and dl36.

Bet the Over in the Atlanta/New Orleans game

I will have to rethink my under call ..now that I hear that Trump has invited Gennifer Flowers, to the debate to counter Mark Cuba's Hillary invite... she said that she will attend Monday night’s presidential debate at Trump’s invitation.

Hi Donald. You know I’m in your corner and will definitely be at the debate!...??

— Gennifer Flowers (@gennflowers) September 24, 2016

If, she shows it has the potential of going north of 120 Million....

Looks like Hilary Clinton will regret trying to play mind games with Donald Trump,, like a Zen Master he will enlighten her on how the game is really  played ...........  Juanita Broaddick  who maintains that Clinton raped her in 1978, told HuffPost that Trump had not asked her to attend. “It’s a little late to make travel arrangements but it would be delightful to attend such an epic event. Maybe I will get an invitation to the next one"

Quote Originally Posted by SarasotaSlim:

With so much at stake ,,the debate should attract millions and millions of viewers.

Will the debate viewership make it the most watched television program ever ?

Your predictions...over or under 100 million viewers ?

I don't know about that..the moron we have changed a lot of things..

According to Nielsen, 9 of top 10 debates had viewers audience in 62-69 million range.  So far, only Carter-Reagan debate reached 80 million viewers.

According to Bustle, debates rarely affect election results although poll numbers may change slightly.  Since 1960, there have been only 3 reversals in poll numbers of candidates after first debate. TV debates mainly target undecided voters.  But the majority already decided who to vote for.

Reagan/Carter debate US population in 1979   225.06 million..

Trump/Clinton debate US population Sep 1, 2016   323.18 million

Almost 100 million more people to draw from ....

I'll be at the game Monday night but I'll come to Covers for some unbiased post debate analysis.

America has become a more divided nation under Obama ...and Americans have lost the hope ...we are also experiencing more race riots in America than in the previous years ..to name a few changes..

More Americans than in the resent pass,,do not feel that their President loves America ..this would be a significant change..

Do you not agree?

I think this divided nation, riots, violence and resentment of the past seem pretty much trump era phenomena. 

Over/under on how many articles on Bing, Google, MSN, and Yahoo declare Hillary the winner of the debates no matter what happens?

I'm guessing at least 30 click bait articles within just hours. Some I bet are already written before the debates. I expect a lot of whitewashing and yellow journalism after the debates from liberals.

I can see the headlines. Fact checking Trump. You click and see nothing but whitewash. All comments posted below the article that expose the liberal lies are deleted and posters banned.
 

All of them . Hillary won tonight's debate she was articulate came.across.as.compassionate caring . Her message was on target she needed a great performance and delivered blah blah blahh. Reality is how many will actually go and vote for her.