CBS News reports an after-action poll of SOTU watchers. Three quarters of viewers liked the President’s State of the Union speech.
People who watched Trump last night liked his speech, unless they were Democrats. Particularly good news is that Independents by and large approved. They can, after all, be swing voters.
Does that mean 3/4 of Americans liked it? No, many Democrats didn’t tune in, just as many Republicans didn’t watch Obama’s dreary efforts.
At some point many decide they don’t need the grief of watching a guy they don’t like say things they don’t believe. This while other people they don’t like jump to their feet and applaud.
Democrats who glumly sat there in the House chamber trying to ignore the GOP pep rally going on around them were in a lose-lose situation and knew it. They looked dorky and sullen being there but might have looked worse staying away.
Present or absent, for Dems it was not fun; something to be endured, not enjoyed. As the old joke would have it, it is the Democrats’ turn in the barrel.
