They never ask the question: so who watched the speech in the first place?
All the cable news combined, according to Nielson, was about 7 million last night. Broadcast news tends to double that. Say 21 million watched Obama last night, and I think that's being generous.
60% of that is 12 million or so.
So, 12 million Americans watching the news approved of his speech. What did the speech say that they approved of? The bottom line of that speech was: "Let's not do anything for the time being."
The article actually said that 61% who watched supported his policy. They did not show that those 61% had changed their minds. They could have gone into the speech supporting his policy.
I, for example, didn't watch. I would expect his supporters to want to watch him.