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CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:49 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama's health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people who tuned into Obama's address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress.

Sixty-seven percent of people questioned in the survey say the support Obama's health care reform proposals that the president outlined in his address, with 29 percent opposed. Those figures are almost identical to a poll conducted immediately after Bill Clinton's health care speech before Congress in September, 1993.

The audience for the speech appears to be more Democratic than the U.S. population as a whole. Because of this, the results may favor Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tune into the speech. The poll surveyed the opinions of people who watched Wednesday night's speech, and does not reflect the views of all Americans.

About one in seven people who watched the speech changed their minds on Obama's health care plan. "Going into the speech, a bare majority of his audience — 53 percent — favored his proposals. Immediately after the speech, that figure rose to 67 percent," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "But the real question is whether those conversions will last. Bill Clinton got similar numbers after his 1993 address to Congress, but five months later a majority of the country no longer supported his plan."

Fifty-six percent of people questioned say they had a very positive reaction to the speech, with 21 percent indicating they had a somewhat positive reaction and a equal amount suggesting they had a negative reaction. The 56 percent who said they had a very positive reaction is lower than the 68 percent of speech watchers who had a similar reaction to the president's first address to a joint session of Congress in February.

More than seven in ten say that Obama clearly stated his goals, with one in four saying he didn't express his goals clearly.

Three out of four say it's very or somewhat likely that the president will pass most of his proposals on health care reform through Congress, with one in four saying it's unlikely.

Seven in 10 say that Obama's policies will move the country in the right direction, up 10 points from before the speech.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted just before and just after the president's speech, with 427 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.

The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican. Our best estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates that the sample is about 8-10 points more Democratic than the population as a whole.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/10/cnn-poll-double-digit-
post-speech-jump-for-obama-plan/#more-68310

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:44 PM

DREAMTROVE

Obama has the highest approval rating in Germany: 92%; Bush's German approval rating just a year ago: 12%

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:58 PM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

"The audience for the speech appears to be more Democratic than the U.S. population as a whole. Because of this, the results may favor Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tune into the speech. The poll surveyed the opinions of people who watched Wednesday night's speech, and does not reflect the views of all Americans."

Make sure to highlight that part Niki....

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:28 PM

CHRISISALL

SuperObama!
Kudos!!!!!

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, September 11, 2009 8:30 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Make sure to highlight that part Niki....

Yeah, but how many Republicans who voted Democrat last time, or downright CHANGED their affiliation to Democrat, does that count?

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When Specter announced he was becoming a Democrat, he pointed out that over 200,000 Republicans in his state had done the exact same thing last year. I’m sure some more did the same in 2009. These Pennsylvania Republicans abandoned the GOP to become Democrats, deciding it wasn’t worth sticking around to help push the party back to normalcy.

http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/6393

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The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles.

In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% identify themselves as Democrats, and just 27% as Republicans.

The share of voters who call themselves Republicans has declined by six points since 2004, and represents, on an annualized basis, the lowest percentage of self-identified Republican voters in 16 years of polling by the Center.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/773/fewer-voters-identify-as-republicans

Be sure to highlight THAT part, Wulf

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Friday, September 11, 2009 8:32 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

2 parties...

Easy to divide and conquer...

Seriously. Do you believe in everything Dems do? Or for the right, do you believe in everything the Repubs do?

*sigh

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Friday, September 11, 2009 10:32 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
"The audience for the speech appears to be more Democratic than the U.S. population as a whole. Because of this, the results may favor Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tune into the speech. The poll surveyed the opinions of people who watched Wednesday night's speech, and does not reflect the views of all Americans."

Make sure to highlight that part Niki....

It was only 3-1. Thats a rounding error at the local Akron office.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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