[Gallup] Poll: Bush wins converts among speech-watchers

CNN ^ | February 3, 2005

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CNN) -- President Bush's State of the Union address raised support for his policies on health care and Social Security among people who watched the speech, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Wednesday night.

The percentage of respondents who said the president's proposals in those areas will help the country rose 15 points from when the same question was asked of the same people in the two days before the speech.

In the post-speech sample, 70 percent of respondents said Bush's policies on health care were positive, while 66 percent approved of the president's plan for Social Security.

Bush showed almost as much improvement on Iraq, with 78 percent of respondents saying U.S. policy there is heading in the right direction, a 12 percentage point increase over pre-speech polling. Overall, 77 percent of respondents said Bush is taking the country in the right direction after the speech compared to 67 percent beforehand.

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Overall, Bush got very positive or positive reactions to his speech from 86 percent of respondents, his best numbers since the State of the Union address he gave January 29, 2002 -- just four-and-a-half months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- when 94 percent of those polled gave him positive marks.

[sam_whiskey]

Should have said "England's privatization plan"...Not "London's plan" as if London were a seperate country. Ooops...

[CedarDave]

I keep seeing references to Denny Crane this evening. Who is he? I did a FR search and found a poster by that name that signed up last Saturday. I then did a keyword search and it came up with Captain Kirk (William Shatner). I know the shower, hugh, cheese, and moose references, but can't figure our the Denny Crane one.

[Howlin]

http://abc.go.com/primetime/bostonlegal/

William Shatner IS Denny Crane; and he's a Republican! He said there are only two places to get the truth: God and Fox News. :-)