Is Watching Politics Really Better Than Football and Cable?

In a world where politics beats sports in ratings... wait, what?

Quick Quiz: There are three shows on at the same time — ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Sunday Night Football,’ and the CNN Reagan Library Debate. Which one gets the most viewers?

That’s right. The show featuring 11 talking heads looking for a job. That’s the one earning more than 23 million viewers. It rated about eight million more than football and 10 million more than flesh-eating zombies.

Prior to the festivities in the shadows of Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One, CNN’s most watched presidential debate was in 2008.

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