Steve, Anderson has been off all week supposedly doing a story for “60 Minutes” in South Africa. Erica Hill has been anchoring so that may explain the large drop in the ratings, but as I have said before it is difficult to gage Anderson’s popularity when he is only up against one live show and two repeats at 10pm.

The CNN National Report Card was a bunch of BS. It was the same old Obama lovefest going on there. I only turned it on long enough to see Donna Brazile give Obama an A and that was enough.

The comment above about Brazile’s A is spot on. I wanted to see how the ‘pundits’ would grade Obama, since they knew ahead of time what the public thought and what the CNN/Opinion Dynamics polling was before the show. It was like watching Judy Woodruff realize Kerry would not win in 2004. CNN is so out of touch with public sentiment its no wonder its ratings are so low.

CNN’s Analysts’ Panel Agrees With Democrats on Obama ‘Report Card’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/08/07/cnns-non-partisan-panel-agree-democrats-report-card

StewartIII is spot on; we knew the outcome before the event aired, so why bother to watch it in the first place?
The CNN Analysts’ Panel ARE democrats so of course they will agree with Democrats on the report card.

CNN’s ratings are in the dumper and despite advertising this show for weeks, folks didn’t bother to tune in.

@TfT, I agree. You can always predict what CNN is going to say about political issues that is why I only tune in to see if my “predictions” are right and 99.9% of the time they are so I just change the channel because I know that I will not be missing a thing. Fox is guilty of this at times as well. I don’t even bother tuning into MSNBC anymore.

CNN’s panel discussions are pointless, their so-called Democratic “analysts” always agree with the Obama administration and their Republican “analysts” are wimps who are constatntly cut off and put in their place if they try to disagree with David “redneck” Gergen or race baiters Roland Martin and Donna Brazile.

ChickaBOOMer: Cable News Ratingzzzz
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/08/cable-news-ratingzzzz_08.html