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Originally Posted by octothorp
Absolutely, but they're even more meaningful because of the demographics: Internet users are typically younger and more affluent and more appealing to advertisers. This is an audience that television networks are desperate to hold onto. So while you would be right to argue that online poll results are not representative of the entire TV-watching population, I think it would be a mistake for network executives to ignore online polls as meaningless, especially given the passion and one-sidedness of such polls.
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if polls on the internet were accurate than there would be no problem here because Conan would have been crushing the ratings.
Networks are interested in age groups, not internet users.
And Leno has been beating Letterman in the ratings for something like 12 years, not just when people knew he was going to be leaving. And I would guess if during that time you took an internet poll as to who was more popular that Letterman would have won.