Poll Results on Bush's Speech

Here's a Gallup poll taken after the President's speech last night.

It looks good for the President as the number of people who thought the U.S. is winning jumped by 10%, those wanting to keep troops in Iraq went up by 12%, and those who think Bush has a clear plan rose by 7%.

Based on this statement, I wouldn't get too excited for Dubya.

The audience was apparently rather small and composed largely of Bush supporters -- 50% of those who tuned in were Republicans, a much higher proportion than exists in the general population but similar to what Gallup has found in polling following other Bush speeches.

In layman's terms, he was preachin' to the choir.

He,he, the truth is that he still have one of the lowest popularity scores as a second term president and like ECK said his audience was more of his own supporters.

Guess what? if that is true even his supporters are not very happy either.

All it was was a nationally televised pep rally staged in front of loyal soldiers who applause on cue.

You know Mr. Bush he has to have a control enviroment with happy people, is like a pre fabricated cacoon of comfort.

I wonder if is something wrong with him and real public.

Originally posted by marg6043
You know Mr. Bush he has to have a control enviroment with happy people, is like a pre fabricated cacoon of comfort.

I wonder if is something wrong with him and real public.

Marg! They might shout things at him! That, in turn, might cause the el presidente to lose his focus. We can't have that happening!

They don't do spontaneous.

Marg, this was a telephone poll of people who saw his speech at home, not a poll of the military audience in actual attendance to the speech.

This quote was pulled from the source this thread was founded upon.

The audience was apparently rather small and composed largely of Bush supporters -- 50% of those who tuned in were Republicans, a much higher proportion than exists in the general population but similar to what Gallup has found in polling following other Bush speeches.

What that sez in layman's terms is, he was preachin' to the choir.

Republicans and Bush-supporters would be more likely to view his speech, but it was still a scientific poll that tried to correct for that, but due to that effect, it has a rather high margin of error.

The bottom line is at least half of the electorate had better things to do than spend an hour or two listening to the same worn out lies repackaged by a desperate administration.

But the troops were great, weren't they?