will work with republicans and figure this out. conservatives have to compromise. conservatives can t give a blank cheque to military. liberals can t give a blank cheque to welfare. both have to come together. both have to cut. you will have to cut spending. the people who wait for they front of my office i call them the beseechers. everybody has their hand out, republicans, democrats, big business, small business, we are out of money. republicans will have to give up their precious spending. democrats will have to give up those. when they come together. when they recognize the enormity of the problem, then we ll fix it. how many of you agree? he s dial testing better than almost anything i ve seen in the last 3 1/2 years i ve been doing this. what is so positive about this? he speaks the truth. he s a citizen politician. he s a real person. he understands what we are dealing with as american citizens. he wants to help. he appears that way you touched on something that about sp
question about opinions of president obama s policies, before and after the speech. before the speech, the respondents basically said they were in favor and thought positively about the president s policies, 61% to 37%. after the speech it went up. 77% to 18%. and now the third graphic. president obama s speech made you more optimistic or less optimisting. and now the third graphic. president obama s speech made you more optimistic or less optimisting. there you go, fairly dramatic there. 77% said more optimistic. 19% said more pessimistic. so in a nutshell, that s what we know from our flash polling. this is polling of more democrats than republicans who watched the president s speech this evening. a fairly positive reaction. we ll also have the dial testing. people watching the president s speech in real time. we ll play that for you later on. tom foreman has that.
and there were some very sharp differences between republicans, democrats and independents on key issues mentioned by the president and the first was energy policy. the president said, we have to pursue alternatives. and then he said this. we need to get behind this innovation and to help pay for it i m asking congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. i don t know if you ve noticed, but they re doing just fine on their own. another big area on which there was a huge split was health care reform. obviously, a lot of concern from democrats and republicans when the president talked about that. now, i have heard rumors that a few of you still have concerns about our new health care law. so let me be the first to say that anything can be improved. the simple truth is what you can really see in this dial testing, in this speech, is that
president obama s policies, before and after the speech. before the speech, the respondents basically said they were in favor and thought positively about the president s policies, 61% to 37%. after the speech it went up. 77% to 18%. and now the third graphic. president obama s speech made you more optimistic or less optimisting. there you go, fairly dramatic there. 77% said more optimistic. 19% said more pessimistic. so in a nutshell, that s what we know from our flash polling. this is polling of more democrats than republicans who watched the president s speech this evening. a fairly positive reaction. we ll also have the dial testing. people watching the president s speech in real time. we ll play that for you later on. tom foreman has that. we re on throughout this hour
a fairly positive reaction. we ll also have the dial testing. people watching the president s speech in real time. we ll play that for you later on. tom foreman has that. we re on throughout this hour bringing you reaction to president obama s message and taking a close look at what was in the speech and the republican s response. do the numbers add up? we re keeping them honest. here s a big chunk of the president s address, some of the highlights. at stake right now is not who wins the next election. after all, we just had an election. at stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country or somewhere else. whether the hard work and industry of our people is rewarded. it s whether we sustain the leadership that has made america not just a place on a map but the light to the world. we are poised for progress. two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come