This leadership vacuum at the DNC is getting really embarrassing for Democrats.
This comes from a Newsweek report about a poll released yesterday.
Poll: Most U.S. Voters Don't Know There is a Democratic Presidential Debate Tonight
Despite CNN's countdown clock and special live coverage, more than half of U.S. registered voters are not aware of the first debate between the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, which the news network will broadcast on Tuesday evening.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,221 adults conducted from Oct. 9 through Oct. 13 found that 57 percent of registered voters were not aware of the debate between the five candidates, to be held at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.
The lack of awareness had little to do with party affiliation. Only 45 percent of voters registered as Democrats knew of the debate, featuring the candidates for their party's nomination in the 2016 election.
In the same vein, 16 percent of registered Democrats said they had heard nothing at all about the debate and 34 percent said they had only heard a little bit.
Still, 40 percent of Democrats said they were very interested in their party's pool of candidates, which includes front-runners Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Another 45 percent were somewhat interested.
How is this possible? If most Americans didn't know about the debate, and yet it still got 10% of households tuning in, what percentage could they have drawn has more Americans known about it? This debate still only drew 67.2% of what the Republican debate in September drew.