http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=17131The poll itself is suspect:
The speech was viewed by an audience composed disproportionately of Bush supporters, a pattern Gallup has observed in other major Bush speeches. Fifty percent of the viewing audience identified themselves as Republicans, 27% as independents, and 23% as Democrats.
While Bush may largely have been "preaching to the choir," the viewing audience did come out of the speech with a slightly more positive outlook on the war than it had before the speech.
Before the address, 44% of those who watched the speech said the United States and its allies were winning the war, 9% said the insurgents, and 44% saw it as a stalemate. Following Bush's speech, 54% of viewers said the United States was winning, 7% the insurgents, and 35% neither side. That represents a statistically significant change even with the small sample size of speech watchers. Most of the shift came from the group who said "neither side" was winning before the speech.
Perhaps the Juicee Daily didn't read this part:
Overall, the sample of 323 speech watchers rated Bush's speech in positive terms -- with 46% describing their reaction as "very positive" and an additional 28% "somewhat positive." That is well below average when compared with other major speeches Bush has given, which have averaged a 60% very positive rating in similar flash polls. That includes a 67% very positive rating for the famous "Mission Accomplished" speech he gave aboard an aircraft carrier in May 2003, in which he declared the major fighting phase of the Iraq war to be over.
Hardly a "homerun."
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