Good News for Obama: "The Speech" Was Watched by 38 Million

      Good news for the Obama campaign: Last night's speech attracted an audience of 38 million -- more than 50% higher than the number who watched John Kerry four years ago. As we noted earlier, it wasn't his best speech of the campaign and it wasn't even the best speech of the convention. But it was decent enough that it had to impress some of those new viewers. Let's see how the convention bounce plays out over the next few days -- especially as a GOP convention bound to attract fewer viewers gets going.