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Subject: Beneath The Hype For =?ISO-8859-1?B?QmlkZW2Scw==?= SOTU Show Address, Red Flags Emerge In CNN Poll
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:30:43 -0400
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A CNN survey examining President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address 
contains warning signs for the commander-in-chief.

The White House touted the top-line finding that up to 65% of respondents had 
a net positive overall reaction to the speech. Allies also pointed to a 17-
point jump in viewers’ confidence that Biden’s policies would move the 
country in the right direction.

	CNN: More than 6 in 10 Americans who watched President Joe Biden’s 
	State of the Union address had a positive reaction to the speech, 
	according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with a smaller 35% 
	reacting very positively. https://t.co/jfJTireLh5

	— Ben LaBolt (@WHCommsDir) March 8, 2024

But beyond the top-line findings, journalists and pundits said the data also 
raised red flags, particularly when compared to surveys of the reaction to 
past State of the Union speeches over the past few decades.

“Actually lower than last year. But you wonder about the denominator. The 
modern SOTU audience is slanted towards people who like/want to hear the 
president, but there are more ‘will he collapse’ rubberneckers w Biden,” 
Semafor reporter David Weigel said in a post to X.

	Actually lower than last year. But you wonder about the denominator. 
	The modern SOTU audience is slanted towards people who like/want to 
	hear the president, but there are more "will he collapse" 
	rubberneckers w Biden 
	https://t.co/3ZpHZ1KbxG https://t.co/zoEQcadNVH

	— David Weigel (@daveweigel) March 8, 2024

He was reacting to early numbers from SSRS, an independent research company 
that conducted the poll for CNN, showing Biden getting 64% overall positive 
reaction to the address.

Ben Domenech, editor at large of The Spectator World, posted statistics 
comparing the positive versus negative net reactions to all four of Biden’s 
addresses to a joint session of Congress since taking office. They showed a 
consistent downtrend from 2021 when Biden received a 78% net positive 
reaction.

	Positive vs Negative reax from those who watched Biden's SOTUs (SSRS 
	for CNN):

	2021 78% 22%2022 71% 29%2023 72% 28%

	2024 65% 35%

	His worst performance by far. Keep in mind viewership skews 
	D.https://t.co/r6bnPOJ37n

	— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) March 8, 2024

“His worst performance by far. Keep in mind viewership skews D,” Domenech 
said in his post to X.

Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake made a similar point, noting in a report 
that State of the Union addresses “almost always receive strongly favorable 
views, in part because viewership tends to draw disproportionately from their 
allies.”

Blake also said, “The 65 percent who had a positive view of the speech was 
actually lower than any such speech CNN has polled in the past quarter-
century — the previous low being Donald Trump’s 2018 address (70 percent).”

He added, “And the 35 percent who offered a ‘very’ positive review was 
effectively tied with Biden’s speech last year (34 percent) for the lowest on 
record. The next lowest were Biden’s 2022 speech and George W. Bush’s 2007 
speech, which each earned ‘very’ positive marks from 41 percent of viewers.”

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