According to the top 50 or so Google results, President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress drew a TV audience of 52 million. Oops! That was last February’s speech to a joint session of Congress. It took a bit of digging to determine that the speech this week had a much smaller audience of 32 million, down roughly 40% from earlier this year. So Obama’s ratings appear to be down.

But wait! a CNN poll said that Obama’s speech wowed his audience, with a 14 point gain in approval of Obamacare. But wait once more! The CNN sample oversampled Democrats versus Republicans by a ridiculous 45-18% margin.

So the loss of 40% of Obama’s audience for similar events wasn’t news, but CNN’s manufacturing of a phony poll showing that he wowed ‘em in the audience was news. Is anyone surprised?

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