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Donald Trump’s Speech Ratings Up Nearly 20% Over Obama’s Last SOTU – Update
Deadline.com ^ | March 1, 2017 8:17am | Dominic Patten

Posted on 03/01/2017 11:52:51 AM PST by GonzoII

UPDATED, 8:17 AM: More numbers are coming in for Donald Trump’s debut last night before a Joint Session of Congress, and they are looking good for the 45th President over his predecessor’s last State Of the Union.

Going low on the hyperbole and heavy on the history, the President’s highly anticipated speech was a fairly polished performance on a very big stage that caught a lot of Americans’ attention – around 22.7 million actually. That’s up over 25% from what Barack Obama’s final SOTU drew among the Big 4 back on January 14, 2016.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jointcongressspeech; obamasotu; trump; trumpsotu; trumpsotu2017; trumpspeech

1 posted on 03/01/2017 11:52:51 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Can’t wait to see the same spin job the media puts on this like they did w/ inauguration crowd size....


2 posted on 03/01/2017 11:55:57 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: GonzoII

Me me me, I I I, not a crowd-pleaser, eh?


3 posted on 03/01/2017 11:57:58 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GonzoII

Ha! President Trump will love this news! God bless him.


4 posted on 03/01/2017 11:58:45 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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5 posted on 03/01/2017 12:00:36 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: GonzoII

I stopped listening the the America hating cross dresser and his wookie manwife/wookie who vacated the white house in January years ago.


6 posted on 03/01/2017 12:00:41 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: GonzoII

A caller to Limbaugh said that an NBC commentator said after the long applause for Trump, something like, “they clapped like that for Nixon”.


7 posted on 03/01/2017 12:02:32 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: GonzoII

He doesn’t need hyperbole as he is now in command of the helm. But, he still needs to call a spade, a spade, every time it is dealt from the bottom, top or middle of the deck.


8 posted on 03/01/2017 12:08:50 PM PST by mazda77
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To: cymbeline

I heard it....


9 posted on 03/01/2017 12:13:03 PM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII

Gee, I thought he’d do better than 20%. This sounds rigged.


10 posted on 03/01/2017 12:51:54 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: GonzoII

11 posted on 03/01/2017 12:59:09 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: GonzoII

Nielsen had it at a much higher 43 million viwers


12 posted on 03/01/2017 1:16:23 PM PST by chemical_boy
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Hardly a surprise and I hope the Predident leaves it be. The last of 8 such speeches is a message to watch Gunsmoke reruns on Encore. Given the expectations and fervor of both the President’s supporters and detractors I am surprised the numbers arent higher.Really President Trump should leave this stuff alone. He created a new and powerful image last evening. Don’t do anything small to detract from it.


13 posted on 03/01/2017 1:25:09 PM PST by xkaydet65
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Really President Trump should leave this stuff alone. He created a new and powerful image last evening. Don’t do anything small to detract from it.

Well, we can hope can't we, LOL.

14 posted on 03/01/2017 1:42:30 PM PST by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: GonzoII

TTTT!


15 posted on 03/01/2017 2:24:05 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: GonzoII

“I heard it....” (the comparison of Trump’s applause to that for Nixon).

On NPR coming home from work today a commentator said (paraphrasing) that his past speeches have been so inflammatory that this run of the mill milder speech seemed magnificent in comparison.


16 posted on 03/01/2017 3:16:35 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: GonzoII

I wonder if there is a video of this somewhere I would love to see who said what


17 posted on 03/01/2017 3:23:11 PM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: GonzoII

I watched on line as likely did plenty of others.

Odd that these statisticians and reporters don;t really mention that but like to say Obama had more viewers in 2009 than trump last night.


18 posted on 03/01/2017 6:43:28 PM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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