More Americans watched the 2008 Super Bowl than voted in the presidential election. 148.3 million watched the Super Bowl and 133 million voted. Super Bowl viewership has broken records every year since. The 2008 election had low turnout, but not the lowest in recent history. 21 of the top 45 network primetime broadcasts were Super Bowls.
More people in the United States watched the Super Bowl in 2008 than voted in that year’s presidential election. An estimated 148.3 million people in the United States watched at least part of Super Bowl XLII and 133 million people voted in the election that same year. About 57 percent of people who were of legal voting age actually voted in the 2008 election, and 43 percent of U.S. households who had televisions watched the Super Bowl that year.
More facts about the Super Bowl and the presidential election:
The number of people in the United States who watched the 2008 Super Bowl was a record, but the record has been broken by every Super Bowl since then. Approximately 151.6 million people in the United States watched at least part of the Super Bowl in 2009, 153.4 million in 2010 and 162.9 million in 2011.
The 2008 election had a relatively low turnout in terms of population of voting age, but it was not the lowest voter turnout in recent history. The lowest voter turnout according to VAP since 1948 was the 2000 election, when George W. Bush was elected. Only about 51 percent of the VAP voted in that election.
Twenty-one of the top 45 network primetime broadcasts in U.S. television history were the Super Bowls. The top 20 in total viewership are all Super Bowls.
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