CNN's "snap poll" of viewers who are "somewhat more Republican"...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Conservatives appear unmoved on immigration
Poll suggests Bush address swayed viewers

Tuesday, May 16, 2006; Posted: 2:31 p.m. EDT (18:31 GMT)



http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/16/immigration/index.html

"Thinly veiled attempts to promote amnesty cannot be tolerated,' Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia told The Associated Press. "While America is a nation of immigrants, we are also a nation of laws, and rewarding those who break our laws not only dishonors the hard work of those who came here legally but does nothing to fix our current situation."

Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona told CNN that the Bush plan will not do well on Capitol Hill. "If the Senate insists on passing guest-work amnesty, and it returns to the House for a conference, the House leadership and, I think, the rank-and-file members, have made it clear the majority party is not going to entertain the notion of a guest-worker amnesty plan."

---SNIP---

In a CNN snap poll of 461 people who watched Monday's speech, 42 percent said they had a positive opinion of the president's immigration policies before they heard him speak. Afterward, 67 percent said they had a positive view, a jump of 25 percentage points. The polled audience was 41 percent Republican, 23 percent Democratic and 36 percent independent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

"People who watch the speech do tend to be somewhat more Republican than the voters as a whole," CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said. "But that wasn't the best response he's gotten compared to other speeches, in fact it was lower than any speech we've measured since he took office." (Poll results -- PDF)

[MrModerate]

1. Thus suggesting that the 'Lican House is much more radical . . .

Than the people. Which I think we knew.

But it looks like another trainwreck a'comin' on the Bushbot Express.

[rodeodance]

2. cnn host was swoning a bit ago-When have you see the Presidents poll

numbers this high?

..In a CNN snap poll of 461 people who watched Monday's speech, 42 percent said they had a positive opinion of the president's immigration policies before they heard him speak. Afterward, 67 percent said they had a positive view, a jump of 25 percentage points. The polled audience was 41 percent Republican, 23 percent Democratic and 36 percent independent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

[AtomicKitten]

3. "somewhat more Republican"

is a bit like being "somewhat more syphilitic"

[blm]

4. Heh....Or being somewhat more moranic?

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