I haven’t looked at the internals of this CBS poll, but it shows a health-care bump for Obama. Not surprising. He had a big bully pulpit and he almost always sounds superficially appealing. I’d expect the numbers to come back down, but we’ll see.

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Party breakdown:
Dem 37
GOP 24
Independent 39
Unless CBS really believes that Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans, and that Independents outnumber Democrats, I am not sure why they release polls like this. This partisan breakdown is like it is in a blue state, not the country at large.
Moreover, of the sample… 53 percent watched the speech. Nationally, according to Nielson, only 31 million of 300 million watched the speech. Sample may not be representative, as it’s unlikely that Obama opponents watched as much as Obama supporters.
The poll is of adults, and it’s quite a small sample (648).
CBS also noted that in 1993 Bill Clinton’s ‘bump’ was more substantial than
Obama’s this week.