Poll: Bush wins converts among speech-watchers (!?)

[meegbear]

(CNN) -- President Bush's State of the Union address raised support for his policies on health care and Social Security among people who watched the speech, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Wednesday night.

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In the post-speech sample, 70 percent of respondents said Bush's policies on health care were positive, while 66 percent approved of the president's plan for Social Security.

Bush showed almost as much improvement on Iraq, with 78 percent of respondents saying U.S. policy there is heading in the right direction, a 12 percentage point increase over pre-speech polling. Overall, 77 percent of respondents said Bush is taking the country in the right direction after the speech compared to 67 percent beforehand.

The strong positives for the president's policies may in part be a reflection of the poll's sample. Of the 485 people surveyed, 52 percent identified themselves as Republicans, 25 percent as Democrats and 22 percent as independents. The poll was done by telephone interviews and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

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Gee CNN, do you REALLY think the polling sample may have had an impact?

:wtf:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/sotu.poll/index.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. There was a poll in the NY Times

this morning, and I took it. Gave Bush terrible marks. Have no idea what the results were, but it felt good to let my voice be heard.

CNN is just spinning-I haven't watched them in ages, and don't plan to.

[sickofit1]

2. CNN Poll

Looks like with 52% polled being republican a lot of democrats
humped side on this toward bush.

[LosinIt]

6. 'humped' side?

yeah, that pretty much explains it.

[liberal N proud]

3. Poll currently on CNN front page

http://www.cnn.com/
Did President Bush lay out a compelling vision for his second term?

Yes 35% 20858 votes

No 65% 38574 votes
Total: 59432 votes

[booksenkatz]

4. The sheep are being fleeced. Or are they? nt

[sniffa]

5. not misLeading

apparentLy, he converted some repubLicans to his way of thinking.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. I'm sure Hitler would have scored high points from this media as well.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. Well gee.....

when over HALF the respondents are Bushitler supports what did you expect?

:eyes:

[tsuki]

9. Or it was completely wrong like the exit polls. eom