“IF YOU’VE GOT NOTHING NICE TO SAY …”
|| By FITSNEWS || Presidents would benefit by keeping their annual State of the Union speeches positive, new research has concluded. Really? We thought nobody watched these speeches anymore …
According to Northwestern University graduate students Zach Anglin and Shawn Li, positive “States of the Union” yielded higher popularity and approval ratings no matter what the national backdrop was at the time the speech was delivered.
Anglin and Li’s findings were presented at a Northwestern “hackathon,” or data mining competition in which advanced analytical tools are employed in an effort to solve complex hypotheticals.
The hypothetical Anglin and Li sought to solve was as follows …
“Is a more positive U.S. president also a more popular one?”
To answer the hypothetical, they used “a data sentiment analysis on all United States presidential State of the Union addresses.”
Interesting stuff …
For those of you keeping score at home, U.S. president Barack Obama‘s 2015 State of the Union speech attracted only 31.7 million viewers – a whopping 40 percent drop from the 52.4 million viewers who watched his 2009 address. That’s the second-lowest rated State of the Union in American history, with only Bill Clinton’s final address (in 2000) drawing fewer viewers.
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Yet….he still polls around 50%.
Bush was polling between 20 and 30 percent at this time in his presidency.
What did the poll on Nov. 4, say about him???…LMAO…
Well…in both presidential elections he wiped the floor the GOP candidate before the polls had even closed in the West.
When you have his voters in swing states voting SIX times each (see Melowise Richardson, Cincinnati)…it ain’t that hard, when the other side plays fair…
Romney even called out Obama on it, to his face, on election night…according to Richard Axelrod…
You don’t care how you feed your greed, and maintain power…that is the nature of your character…
If just a Million cheaters vote six times, that’s six million extra votes…and Philly, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami, Tampa and Orlando were filled with cheaters….
How many states did Obama get by fraud???
That’s like saying deflated balls were responsible for a 45 point drubbing in the NFL playoffs.
If I were you, and looking for a real election fraud and conspiracy…I would start with the Florida recount in 2000.
boom
Michelle spoke at the opening of an art museum and delivered a race-hate speech so divisive, Rev. Jerry Wright S#!t himself, when he heard it…
These Obamas are FILTHY, Disgusting, and very un-grateful people. They are an embarrassment to ALL Americans…
If you’re not ashamed of the Obamas, you are a lost soul….
I already know the state of the union. Who can look at that guy anyway?
That’s what I always say, “positivity till the very end”.
All is the for the best.