Exclusive: Swing voters rate Trump's State of Union speech 'on the plus side of mediocre'
Source: USA Today
Michael Collins, USA TODAY Published 4:06 a.m. ET Jan. 31, 2018
WASHINGTON President Trumps first State of the Union address did little to change the hearts and minds of a group of swing voters who liked his call for more vocational education and paid family leave but rated the speech overall as not terribly convincing.
He looked presidential, he said all the right things, but lets see what he implements, said Lauren Price, a retired government worker who watched the speech Tuesday night with other voters as part of a focus group organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based think tank.
Matthew Mielke, a business contractor from Washington, D.C., said Trump spoke well, was on message and looked presidential.
But we always grade him on a weird curve, Mielke said. If hes not foaming at the mouth and screaming, we say he did a good job.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/31/exclusive-swing-voters-rate-trumps-state-union-speech-plus-side-mediocre/1076507001/
BumRushDaShow
(127,270 posts)That about sums up with the media bloviators do.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)MFM008
(19,776 posts)Guy Steve S.said it would be forgotten by tonight.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)We don't expect surprised from any SOTU, and we don't expect inspiration from Donald Trump. Based on the clips that Colbert made such hay out of, I'd still say that Trump read the teleprompter successfully.
It was a mediocre speech, and that it had nothing to do with anything good that will ever be accomplished is a separate issue.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)". . .plus side of mediocre. . ."
ffr
(22,644 posts)I saw the clapping clips on Crooks and Liars.
The over-the-top clapping for anything and everything out of Dotard's mouth must have been difficult for republicans, with their heads so far up his ass.
Loyalty to the king, above country.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)said Lauren Price,,,
jesus Lauren are you stupid!!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Can they not hear the total insincerity and fakery in his voice and the cadence of his words?
And these dumb as rocks assholes are allowed to vote.
And BREED !!!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)ffr
(22,644 posts)If I don't want to be rounded up, I suppose I best start learning how to solute them.
gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)tableturner
(1,676 posts)Anybody saying that shows how low the bar really is. He did not puke or take a dump on the floor, so he was "presidential". Right......
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)People that chow down on shit sandwiches and claim to be gourmets?