The new CNN snap poll from after President Obama’s speech provides some preliminary good news — though the self-selectiveness of the speech-watchers does make for something of a caveat.
Going into the speech, 53% of the speech-watchers favored Obama’s proposals. Coming out of it, that support has now risen to 67%. More than seven in ten say Obama clearly stated his goals — which was of course a key goal of the speech itself. And three out of four think it’s somewhat or very likely that Obama will pass most of his proposals through Congress.
However, the speech audience polled was 45% Democratic, only 18% Republican, and the remainder independent. And while Democrats certainly do out-number Republicans, it’s not by that much — meaning that the people who chose to tune in were naturally more sympathetic to Obama to start with than the population as a whole.
