Hang on to your towel and…

Todd at The Blue State worries…

More than 10 million viewers tuned in to watch the Democratic debate last night, making it the most-watched debate this primary season. Throughout the verbal dual, Obama was constantly on the defensive. We will need to wait a few days to see whether polls indicate that viewers thought the questioning was unbalanced, or whether they thought Obama just did poorly.

Hopefully it was the former.

Hopefully, in fact, neither. 10 million viewers sounds like a lot, but it's still only one in 30 Americans. That's just not enough to move any properly constructed national poll. How many of those folks were in Pennsylvania might be a more interesting number, and doubtlessly closer to statistical significance. Same for other states and territories with impending primaries.

If there were millions of viewers, though, in New York, California, Ohio, etc., well, the immediate impact is considerably reduced.

For those of us who skipped the damned thing and are dependent on post-debate spin, the former seems to have it hands down, anyway.