{"id":298946,"date":"2019-02-06T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=298946"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:16:27","slug":"drive-bys-shell-shocked-by-their-own-snap-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/06\/drive-bys-shell-shocked-by-their-own-snap-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Shell-Shocked by Their Own Snap Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let me get this out of the way. Media reaction to this. There\u2019s been all kinds of it. Let\u2019s go to the stats first. CBS: 76% approve of the speech — all kinds of people — 59% CNN very positive view of the speech. This is the exact opposite what the media was setting the table for, the exact opposite what the left thought they were gonna get. They thought they got a guy last night that was gonna be putting his foot in his mouth and tripping over himself all night. They walked in there arrogant, condescending, so confident Trump was gonna blow it. And he ended up showing every one of them how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

Here is CBS special coverage of the State of the Union Address after the speech. CBS Eyeball News, Jeff Glor reporting a CBS poll…<\/p>\n

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GLOR: (solemn) From our CBS News, uh, instant poll here following the president\u2019s State of the Union (deep breath): 76% of speech watchers said they approved what they heard. (gulp) Seventy-two percent said they approved of the president\u2019s ideas for immigration.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (impression) Gulp, gulp. “That\u2019s our poll? We are reporting this? That\u2019s our poll?” And then of course they have to start discrediting their own polls, and you know how they do that. They say (impression), “Well, you gotta keep in mind here that these are instant polls. These are not scientific! These are immediately online after the fact polls before analysts have been able to tell the American people what the president actually said. Uh, you also keep in mind most of the audience is made up of the president\u2019s supporters. Ehhh, people in the opposite party don\u2019t really watch the State of the Union.” They start discrediting their own poll. Same thing happened at CNN. David Chalian\u2019s their political director last night…<\/p>\n

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Here was his reaction…<\/p>\n

CHALIAN: This is our first look at a brand-new instant poll, but it is among speech watchers. So I just want to stress here, for a State of the Union address, the president\u2019s partisans, his supporters tend to turn out to watch the speech. This is true of a president of either party.<\/p>\n

MAN: Yehhh.<\/p>\n

CHALIAN: So tonight, we saw a heavily Republican-skewed audience turn out to watch the president\u2019s speech. But look at this! A very positive reaction from those who watched the speech tonight: 59% very positive, 17% somewhat positive, 23% negative!<\/p>\n

RUSH: He has no idea who watched the speech when he\u2019s making this report. They have no idea who watched it. He\u2019s just employing the old conventional wisdom that they tell themselves when an enemy president does a good speech. “Well, yeah, but of course only the president\u2019s supporters watch these things.” Of course, these same people thought that when Obama delivered a State of the Union, that the world was watching and that the world was enthralled and that everybody loved Obama — and any those who ended up disapproving were not worthy of comment or recognition.<\/p>\n