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"Well, thank heavens Barack Obama was not president over the last year, because had Barack Obama been president over the last year, Osama bin Laden would have been declaring victory in Iraq," the former Massachusetts governor said in an interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel.
-- Anne E. Kornblut
BY THE NUMBERS
Debating Univision's Ratings
Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the United States, claimed that a Democratic debate held by the network Sunday night reached 4.6 million people. But according to figures released earlier this week by Nielsen Media Research, the numbers touted by the network weren't entirely accurate. In fact, the total average viewers for Sunday's debate was 2.2 million, more than a million short of the numbers hit by last week's Republican debate on Fox News.
Officials at Univision said that reporting the debate's cumulative audience -- 4.6 million -- is an industry standard, the same way the Oscars, the Super Bowl and the World Series report their ratings. "We were comparing apples to apples," said Univision spokeswoman Maryam Banikarim.
Even with the 2.2 million "official" viewers, Univision is claiming success. Its debate drew the biggest audience thus far of all the debates in the 18 to 34 and 25 to 54 demographics, even beating the CNN-YouTube Democratic debate in July, Banikarim noted. Univision, she pointed out, attracts a younger audience.
Sunday night's 90-minute debate, held at the University of Miami, featured all but one of the Democratic presidential hopefuls. A GOP debate, scheduled to run on the network Sept. 16, was postponed. Univision cited scheduling conflicts among the candidates.
-- Jose Antonio Vargas
