Important to remember Trump's initial address last night NOT as successful as Obama's and GWB's

[highplainsdem]

This has been glossed over in some of the reporting on the poll this morning:


http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politics/donald-trump-joint-address-poll/

While the 57% who said they had a very positive reaction to Trump's speech outpaces the marks received by his predecessor for any of his recent State of the Union addresses, they fell below the reviews either Barack Obama or George W. Bush received for either of their initial addresses to Congress. In 2009, 68% had a very positive reaction to Obama, while 66% gave Bush very positive reviews in 2001. Likewise, the 69% of speech-watchers who thought Trump's policies would move the nation in the right direction lagged behind the share who felt that way about Obama's or Bush's policies in the first year, and ranks around their low-marks on this score. Obama's low-mark on that score was 68% last year and his high was 88% in 2009. Bush topped out at 91% in 2002 and hit a low mark of 67% in the final year of his presidency.

[leftynyc]

1. Very good points

and something you know the degenerate will be looking at. He can't seem to help himself from comparing other administrations to his own - started with crowd size.

[uponit7771]

2. Americans aren't sold by his bullshit like political hacks

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Oh no! The billions and billions who watched it all thought it was great, incredible and bigly!

[Cha]

4. Now why would they want to gloss over the facts on their

Village Idiot?

[shawnivan110]

5. nice

[gopiscrap]

11. welcome to DU

[NurseJackie]

6. Yabbut ... applause and applause. World record, or something.

[alarimer]

7. And he will fuck it up again soon (I hope).

He cannot be "presidential" for long.

[ananda]

8. 57%

Seriously?

This is a very disturbing number.

I think sometimes that we resisters are living in a fantasy bubble
where we believe that people will surely not be fooled by 45 or
the media rubbish any more.

Boy that was wrongheaded. What a wake-up call.

[LAS14]

9. Thanks for the good info. nt

[highplainsdem]

12. You're welcome! Thought we could all use the more reassuring news buried in these stories.

[fleabiscuit]

10. It's like polling Brady fans after the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl.

I wouldn't put much into the minority presidents last nights performance.

"...The CNN/ORC Poll was conducted February 28 among 509 Americans who watched President Trump's speech. Respondents were first interviewed as part of a random national sample conducted February 24-27. In those interviews, respondents indicated they planned to watch tonight's speech and were willing to be re-interviewed. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points...."

[Johonny]

13. most people I know skipped it totally

Most assume it would suck, all reports is the highest bar it reached was modestly dull. His programs stink, many won't see light of day in congress and he seems to have no actual will power to work them through anyways. He likes talking and making people hear him talk. He doesn't like to work.

[logosoco]

14. This news means the staffers are going to have a hard day!!Nt