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I'm not saying there's anything wrong with age. I'm saying that the poll you initially brought up, the one that said more people preferred Leno, was probably skewed because it came from AOL due to AOL being more heavily slanted towards older people. Look at that graph. If you sent out e-mails to only gmail users, do you think you would get the same result? Probably not.
The ratings don't lie and they are a more scientific result than either of us have provided. Conan's finale, after only 7-months of the Tonight Show, outdrew Jay Leno's 17-years there by 40% in the younger demographic. You can take that however you want. Maybe Jay's audience all got older. Maybe newer viewers didn't find him as funny as their parents.
Did Jay have better overall numbers? Absolutely. Did he also have better lead-ins and more time to build an audience? Absolutely.
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