No insta-polls? The numbers must not be too good for jr.

[The_Casual_Observer]

Otherwise it would be headlines about a "homerun".

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Maybe later in the morning

They gotta find friendly people who actually watched. I saw a little bit of the replies from CSPAN and even one republican line caller was pissed off.

[punpirate]

2. CNN's online poll on four points...

... gives him D grades all across the spectrum.

[TahitiNut]

3. CNN's Instapoll gave him a 68% and admitted that most were Republicans.

They also noted that it was the lowest approval rating of any of his SOTU speeches, even though the Republican respondents vastly outnumbered Democrats (who coudn't stomach watching). (They only polled people who claimed they actually watched the whole speech.)

On edit: It appears that what I heard was the polling results for "right direction" vs. "wrong direction" ... which was the lowest of all SOTUs.

Instant poll

In interviews with 464 adult Americans who watched the speech, 48 percent said they had a very positive reaction. That's well short of the three-quarters of viewers who reacted favorably to Bush's 2002 State of the Union address.

Twenty-seven percent of Tuesday's viewers said they had a somewhat favorable reaction to the speech, while 23 percent said they felt negatively about it. (See the poll results)

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Because the poll reflects the opinions of only those who watched the State of the Union, it reflects more favorable opinions than a random sampling of the country as a whole. The audience was 43 percent Republican, 23 percent Democratic and 34 percent Independent.



Question: What was your overall reaction to Bush's speech tonight: very positive, somewhat positive, somewhat negative or very negative?



Question: Do you think the policies being proposed by George W. Bush will move the country in the right direction or the wrong direction?



Question: Overall, would you describe the state of the nation's economy and the situation in Iraq today as getting better, staying about the same, or getting worse?



Question: Do you think the proposals Bush outlined in tonight's speech to deal with health care and energy consumption will be very effective, somewhat effective, not too effective, or not at all effective?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/bush.sotu/index.html

[Historic NY]

4. AOL has a few multi question ones going.....

* is losing too

http://news.aol.com/dailypulse/013106?id=20060131105209990001

[Richard D]

5. This was depressing

. . . in the AOL poll on the second page:

What kind of priority should Bush and Congress give global warming?
Lower priority 39%
High, but not the highest 33%
Highest priority 28%
Total Votes: 186,362
Note on Poll Results