[Hoot Gibson]

The CBS News/YouGov survey taken after the speech showed that 76 percent of Americans approved of Trump's speech, including 69 percent of CNN viewers.

The speech was very partisan overall, yet viewers overwhelmingly approved. Democrats need a new strategy unless their goal is to drive voters to the Republican Party.

Not entirely true. Important to note the context of a poll. It wasn't 76% of Americans, but 76% of speech viewers, which were largely Republican.

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Obviously, the poll only included those who watched the speech, but 20 percent of Democrat viewers approving the speech should alarm the Democrat party.

My guess that more than 20 percent of Democrats disapproved of the Democrats' childish antics during the speech. I don't know if that question was included in the survey.

The numbers also suggest that independent voters also strongly approved the speech.

Yeah I'm not a Democrat, but words matter, so saying 76% of Americans approved of Trump's speech when in reality it was 76% of 1,207 viewers polled, who were mostly Republican anyways, is important to note. Also, I didn't see in the poll where it said 20% of Democrat viewers approved of the speech. Am I missing something?

Sorry the post did not meet your expectations. You make a valid point. I created the thread during my morning commute, but I will look at the internals for the poll this evening. Polls never survey every American. I did not think I needed to explain the o obvious. 

I expect that most Democrats disapproved of the speech, but there have to be many Democrats who were also unhappy with their party's elected representatives' behavior last night. 

Did you watch the speech?