CNN: Obama wins with speech-watchers, poll says

[steve2470]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two out of three Americans who watched President Obama's health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans, a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. national poll.

Sixty-seven percent of people questioned in the survey said they support the health care reform proposals Obama outlined in his address to a joint session of Congress. Twenty-nine percent opposed the proposals. Those figures are almost identical to a poll conducted immediately after Bill Clinton's health care speech before Congress in September 1993.

The audience for the speech appears to be more Democratic than the U.S. population as a whole. Because of this, the results may favor Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tuned into the speech. The poll surveyed the opinions of people who watched Wednesday night's speech, and does not reflect the views of all Americans.

About one in seven people who watched the speech changed their minds on Obama's health care plan. "Going into the speech, a bare majority of his audience -- 53 percent -- favored his proposals. Immediately after the speech, that figure rose to 67 percent," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "But the real question is whether those conversions will last. Bill Clinton got similar numbers after his 1993 address to Congress, but five months later a majority of the country no longer supported his plan." See full poll results (PDF)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/09/poll.obama.speech/

[polichick]

1. Great news! nt

[Honeycombe8]

2. Sweet! (Hope that lasts.) nt

[Aramchek]

3. our man done real good!

[FrenchieCat]

4. Notice how they had to qualify the results.....

something they usually never do.

CNN = Asshats!

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. We are fickled bunch. Democrats, whether in power or out, have never

learned how to manipulate the media. The right, for all it's faults, has mastered media manipulation. I'm surprised that we're even this far along in the healthcare debate. With a corporate controlled media, an ever increasingly disjointed right wing, and liberals who are never satisfied with anything, color me surprised.