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kpete

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Wed Mar 1, 2017, 10:04 AM Mar 2017

Putting THIS here before Trump tweets HIS speech was best ever...





While the 57% who said they had a very positive reaction to Trump's speech outpaces the marks received by his predecessor for any of his recent State of the Union addresses, they fell below the reviews either Barack Obama or George W. Bush received for either of their initial addresses to Congress. In 2009, 68% had a very positive reaction to Obama, while 66% gave Bush very positive reviews in 2001. Likewise, the 69% of speech-watchers who thought Trump's policies would move the nation in the right direction lagged behind the share who felt that way about Obama's or Bush's policies in the first year, and ranks around their low-marks on this score. Obama's low-mark on that score was 68% last year and his high was 88% in 2009. Bush topped out at 91% in 2002 and hit a low mark of 67% in the final year of his presidency.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politics/donald-trump-joint-address-poll/index.html
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Putting THIS here before Trump tweets HIS speech was best ever... (Original Post) kpete Mar 2017 OP
Its rigged - seriously - check out the article below BSdetect Mar 2017 #1

BSdetect

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1. Its rigged - seriously - check out the article below
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 10:08 AM
Mar 2017

Exposed how exactly social media is being used to influence elections [View all]

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media,

This is how they influence elections and even financial markets which has proven very successful



https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage
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