Most viewers approved of Trump's second State of the Union address

[crazytown]

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Source: CBS News

Seventy-six percent of Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night approved of the speech he gave. Just 24 percent disapproved.

As is often the case in State of the Union addresses, the people who watched tonight's speech leaned more towards the president's own party, at least compared to Americans overall. In the latest CBS national poll released last month, 25 percent of Americans identified themselves as Republicans. Among those who watched Tuesday night's address, that figure was 43 percent, and Republicans helped bolster the overall approval of the address.

And while 97 percent of Republicans approved of the speech, far fewer Democrats who tuned in did (30 percent). Most independents did approve.



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-of-the-union-2019-most-viewers-approved-of-trumps-sotu-address-cbs-news-poll/

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THE QUESTION THEY DID NOT ASK: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president? That question would have shown that many of those who dissapprove did not 'tune in'. 71% of Americans do NOT believe there is a crisis at the southern border.

[ginnyinWI]

1. Unbelievable.

The Republican on NewsHour said it was a poor speech poorly delivered.

[lagomorph777]

38. Most viewers approved because most viewers were Trumpies.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142260301

[Afromania]

2. So, Republicans and people who want you to think they aren't Republicans(Indys) are ok with nonsense

[stonecutter357]

3. if vote for a racists pos you are a racists pos !

[Soxfan58]

28. Yes!

[Achilleaze]

4. "...of those who tuned in..."

Like most decent folks, I will not subject myself or my family to direct in-your-face lies and bullshit. I just will not tune in to lies. Ever.

I am Legion. We are Legion.

[mucifer]

8. Then the question is did a significantly less amount of people tune in than

SOTU with President Obama.

These numbers are horrific.

[crazytown]

12. 71% of Americans do NOT think there's a border crisis.

The numbers are wrong.

[PatSeg]

16. This was my take

Many sane people chose NOT to watch the speech. This poll does not really tell us much.

[lagomorph777]

39. I never even considered watching an hour of undiluted bullshit.

Why would I subject myself to that?

[PatSeg]

40. I watched something else last night

but when it ended, I saw the last part of Trump's speech. I really hadn't intended to watch it, but something attracted my attention unfortunately. I try to avoid watching Trump knowing there will be highlights and clips later on. That's about as much as I usually can handle. On top of everything else he is an awful public speaker.

[onit2day]

46. Question should be "Do U think president lied and made up statistics?"

Then we would see how many don't care if he lies as long as he lies in their favor. There is no border crisis so why do so many surveyed just go along with this lie?

[bearsfootball516]

5. Notice the last poll, very few Democrats watched it.

Most people who watched it were supporters, thus of course the approval numbers are going to be high among those who tuned in.

[democratisphere]

6. redumbliCONS watched the speech.

Democrats did not. A BIG NOT HERE.

[True Blue American]

17. They didn't ask me.

I did not watch it.

[maxrandb]

23. Except that the headlines all over the country today will be "76% Approve of President's Speech"

there will be NO context.

There will be NO discussion of "who watched"

There will be NO look at who was polled (unless you go to the fine print).

Stand by for NON-STOP 24/7 76% Approved of President Shit for Brains bullshit from the MSM

Hell, by the time their done, they'll fucking drop the "Approved of the Speech" and just run with "Donnie Shit for Brains has a remarkable 76% approval rating"

[democratisphere]

24. Just one more BIG FAT LIE.

[Loki Liesmith]

29. It doesn't matter

No one cares about how the speech polled. Except DU.

Don’t people here get tired of these constant freak outs?

[crazytown]

31. Peggy Noonan used it to attack AOC.

The political class care. You can bet Dotard will be tweeting his toadstool off. ‘They love me’

[melm00se]

34. You hit the nail right on the head

people who read and post on political sites are what I call "political snobs". They obsess on every detail and nuance and are about as far out of touch with the mainstream as you can get.

[Renew Deal]

7. A bunch of republicans watched it and liked it

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Shocking

[crazytown]

10. You'll be laughing on the other side of your face

when MS-13 march on North Dakota

[stonecutter357]

13. fuck trump !

[watoos]

15. fuck the fake polls,

as AOC said about the speech, there wasn't one concrete policy proposal. The speech was nothing more than a campaign rally.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Garbage in. Garbage out.

Bet most of those Independents are essentially camouflaged republicans.... maybe the right wing edge

[cstanleytech]

25. Exactly, the majority of americans refused to watch him parrot his own bullshit some more so

all he largely had was his base of village idiots that think a pizza restaurant was engaged in a massive pedophile ring.

[Perseus]

11. That is because most Democrats did not watch the orange buffoon

I have to think the poll is useless, I doubt that many democrats watched it. I know I didn't, and what I am reading of what was said does not surprise me.

[Butterflylady]

14. I was not picked to do this YouGov poll.

So I'm wondering who really took this poll? I usually do a YouGov poll every week.

[MosheFeingold]

18. Well, of course

It was like a speech supporting puppies.

Everyone likes puppies. Most of the things he talked about were solid. For example, relating the story of the Shoah victim who was literally on a train to death when the Americans stormed the train was fricking awesome event and made me proud to be American. I worked in Dachau post WWII processing Nazis. I’m a Jew. It’s a very personal moment to me. I cried.

And the economy is very good.

Freeing ourselves from Mid East oil is fantastic.

Criminal justice reform was great.

His moves against drug companies were good.

So, from that perspective, it was great.

But had little to nothing to do with Trump.

And that last line is our point.

[Bengus81]

19. Thanks for PROVING that Dems didn't tune in for that dog and pony show,I sure DIDN'T.......

[Javaman]

20. in other news: Americans are still gullible rubes. nt

[oldsoftie]

21. I approve that its OVER

[SayItLoud]

22. US never going to be socialist....except

public infrastructure like roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, making modern life as comfort-driven as it is today, police, public libraries, social security, prisons (to hold people like tRUMP)....etc etc etc.

[EX500rider]

43. None of that is socialist...you are confusing social programs (which all govts have) with Socialism

Socialism is the govt owning the means of production.

[EleanorR]

26. Why almost double the number of republican respondents compared to Democrats?

How is that an accurate poll?

[bearsfootball516]

27. It's accurate because significantly more Republicans watched it than Democrats.

The people polled was the audience and since the audience was primarily Republicans, they're going to get the majority of the influence.

[EleanorR]

30. So his lips were moving and his fan boys and girls swooned.

No surprise there.

[bearsfootball516]

32. Basically.

It's like walking into a Cracker Barrel and polling everyone on whether or not they like Cracker Barrel. When the audience your polling is already slanted, you're going to get slanted results.

[vlyons]

33. It's because people with an intact moral compass didn't watch, or turned him off.

nt

[jcgoldie]

35. Who are the 30% of Democrats who approve of this shit?

That's the number that seems incredibly off to me.

[defacto7]

37. I think they were Repubs who lied.

[Polly Hennessey]

36. I would speculate that mostly Repugs watched.

Independents are a farce: either Repugs in disguise or attention-seekers. No one I know watched. Joshua Trump has it right- nothing there and it’s past my bedtime.

[treestar]

41. Online poll?

Those don't prove anything since they are self selecting.

I remember Bernie winning to many of those.

[The Wizard]

42. Normal people didn't watch.

[Ilsa]

44. Sadly, the results of the poll and the poll itself

reflect how poor people's critical thinking skills are.

[onetexan]

45. most of the viewers must be Republicans