The debate of candidates for vice presidents of the United States watched a record number of viewers

The debate of candidates for vice presidents from the Democratic and Republican parties, held on Thursday at the University of Washington in St. Louis (Missouri), was on the live 69.9 million viewers-a record number. This was informed on Friday by Nielsen Media Research , which studies the media market.

According to her experts, Democrat Joseph Biden and the Republican of Sarah Paylin, the “duel”, attracted the attention of the largest number of spectators in the United States compared to the debates of candidates for vice presidents of past years, ITAR-TASS reports.

Until now, the palm in this area has held a meeting face to face before the television cameras Democrats Geraldin Ferraro and Republican George Bush the eldest in 1984. Those debates watched 56.7 million American spectators.

The debate of Bayden and Palein easily surpassed the full -time meeting of the current presidential candidates - Barack Obama and John McCain. On September 26, their "duel" was watched live by 52.4 million spectators. The transfer did not even fall into the "ten" verbal battles of US presidency candidates who attracted the attention of the largest number of spectators. In the first place is still the verbal fight of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980 - 80.6 million people.