SOTU polled well, because Republicans watched
By Emily Stewart
Feb 6, 2019, 10:30am EST
... Polls from CNN and CBS News conducted shortly after the big address found that viewers generally approved of what the president had to say. That makes sense, because generally, a greater proportion of people who watch the State of the Union address tend to be from the president’s party. In other words, of course Republican viewers thought Trump did a good job.
A CNN poll conducted immediately after Trump’s speech found that 59 percent of viewers had a “very positive” reaction to the address, compared to 48 percent last year and 57 percent in 2017, when he delivered an address to a joint session of Congress, a sort of pseudo-State of the Union ...
... People who watched this year’s State of the Union were 17 points likelier than the general public to identify as Republicans, and Republicans, of course, liked what Trump had to say.
Eighty-seven percent of Republican viewers had a very positive reaction to Trump’s speech, as did 57 percent of independents; 64 percent of Democrats, however, had a negative reaction ...
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213682/state-of-the-union-approval-ratings-polls
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