(Community Matters) From Mike Allen’s POLITCO Playbook Daily Update, what focus groups had to say about the speech
–David Binder Research, a former Obama for America pollster, with white, independent men in Columbus, Ohio: ‘Ohio focus group participants reacted very positively to the President’s address. Voters expressed an especially favorable reaction to: Obama’s conviction and sincerity in communicating the urgency of the issue … Obama’s determination to do more than just talk about alternative energy like previous administrations, but to put in place a plan to achieve it … For many participants, the President’s speech crystallized a decision that they were already coming to on their own that now is a time to act on energy reform legislation.’
–Frank Luntz, for Fox News, 13 Obama voters and 15 McCain voters, in a ballroom of the Beverly Hilton hotel: ‘He’s become George Bush. We’re so polarized that the only people who want to listen to him already support him. … [The McCain voters] don’t trust him. It started with health care. This is the last straw. I think it’s tragic.’
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