CNN Poll: Bush wins converts among speech-watchers (BUT...A BIG CAVEAT!)

[Roland99]

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

The percentage of respondents who said the president's proposals in those areas will help the country rose 15 points from when the same question was asked of the same people in the two days before the speech.

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.
Geee....duh!

WTF is CNN even posting an article like that? Total BULLSHIT! Of course Bush won "converts", he was preaching to the choir!

[Oreo]

1. I saw that.. pretty big damn caveat

I'm sure the independents were republicans too

[autorank]

2. SIGN OF TOTAL DESPERATION: SAMPLE 52% REPUKE

They really want this one, Social Security; and I don't blame them. They will get rich beyond words on fees, etc. That's why the published a poll with a 52% Republican share of the sample. This is really disgusting (but what isn't on CNN). The brazenness is what's instructive. THEY ARE F'ING DESPERATE. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO HELP * GET PRIVATIZATION. THEY HAVE RECEIVED THEIR INSTRUCTIONS, WHICH APPARENTLY ARE QUITE CLEAR AND FIRMLY DELIVERED. IMAGINE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF CNN AND MSNBC DON'T COOPERATE. DESPERATE TIMES.

[Cocoa]

3. you nailed it

only freaks find any reason to watch Bush anymore.

[LostInAnomie]

4. 5 point margin of error, no less.

Jeez, who the hell runs these things.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Quite a representitive sample.

Only 25% Democrats? I guess we know how our opinions are being weighted by the corporate media. Any doubts about those exit poll results now?

[Roland99]

6. Well, Democrats weren't watching the BS show

They were watching Comedy Central while getting stoned. ;)