Obama’s Speech Resonates with Swing Voters

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Obama’s Speech Resonates with Swing Voters

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Democracy Corps conducted dial testing of the speech with 50 independent and weak partisan voters in Nevada, followed by focus group discussions with voters who shifted toward approval of Obama’s performance in office. This difficult audience for Obama was a heavily Republican-leaning group (46 percent Republican, 20 percent Democratic) that split their votes in 2008 (52 percent Obama, 46 percent McCain) but had moved away from him over the past year, with majorities expressing disapproval with his job performance and unfavorable views of him on a personal level.

Obama saw a substantial, but not overwhelming, spike in his overall numbers with his personal favorability rating and job approval both increasing by 16 points. But his speech drove much bigger shifts among these initially skeptical swing voters on several key issues.

Most important, Obama managed to decisively reverse the view that he was too close to Wall Street. In a Democracy Corps survey from just before the Massachusetts election, we found that a 49 to 41 percent plurality said Obama and Democrats were more concerned with bailouts for Wall Street than creating jobs for regular Americans. Entering the evening, swing voters in this group agreed with a 48 to 16 percent plurality saying Obama “puts Wall Street ahead of the middle class.” But after the speech, the number disagreeing with that statement jumped a remarkable 50 points, to 66 percent. Moreover, Obama saw a 38-point increase in support for his banking reform plan and a 40-point increase in the percent saying that he “stands up to special interests.” Obama’s strong words for the banks clearly resonated and generated some of the strongest scores on our dials of the night from Democrats, Republicans and independents.

Wow!

President Obama on repealing the Bush tax cuts:

We will continue to go through the budget line by line to eliminate programs that we can't afford and don't work. We've already identified $20 billion in savings for next year. To help working families, we will extend our middle-class tax cuts. But at a time of record deficits, we will not continue tax cuts for oil companies, investment fund managers, and those making over $250,000 a year. We just can't afford it.

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[jenmito]

1. Wow-those jumps are HUGE!

Thanks for posting. :hi:

[mzmolly]

2. We need to see more of

from the President. :hi:

[Cali_Democrat]

3. K&R!

Keep on keepin' on, Mr. Obama.

Let the haters hate while you send them a picture of a middle finger in the mail.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Hey, I like that!

:rofl:

[rudy23]

4. More proof that liberal rhetoric plays very well with swing voters.

I hope he follows through on this with his actions.

[Cha]

5. Good...glad they

liked his first SOTU..

Poor things around here are scaping the bottom of the negative barrels to find something..anything wrong with it.

Oh, wait..it wasn't forceful enough for the bitter ones. Who. gives. a. shit.

[JoeyT]

18. It was forceful enough for some of the bitter ones.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm actually proud to be labeled a cynic.
Would I have *liked* to see him sock a few Republicans and Lieberman? Yes. That would've just been sprinkles, though.
The cake (and the icing of him insulting the neo-con supremes) were good enough without sprinkles.

[tridim]

6. Lesson for the "swing voters", pay attention next time..

and you wont need a SOTU address to understand that he has been saying these things the whole time.

[lordcommander]

9. +1 Billion

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

:thumbsup:

[stray cat]

8. Dang - but we hate swing voters - they are not pure progressives

can't they vote for the GOP and not dirty our party.

[depakid]

19. Hope you can get them to man your phone banks, put their boots on the ground....

and GOTV.

[Number23]

11. "But it was just a speech!! And the man ALWAYZ gives such purrrty speeches!!"

Seen this bit of fuckwittery in other threads and just thought I'd beat the idiot who keeps repeating it to the punch...

[Fire1]

15. Good one! lol!! n/t

[Mithreal]

12. Then imagine how much action would resonate.

[Clio the Leo]

13. As long as the President has the ability to speak.....

.... the GOP is SO screwed!

[jeanpalmer]

14. That's the problem with our country

People are easily swayed by rhetoric. It's not a strength, it's a weakness. It's why they fell for WMD's in Iraq. It's why our country is off track. Fools.

[Fire1]

16. I'm certainly not swayed by your rhetoric. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

17. K&R!