The post speech analysis seemed to all come to one conclusion last night –
Bush was trying to unite the country. So did Americans come to the some
conclusion?

According to the latest SUSA
poll, Bush failed on that attempt but not by much. 44% of those polled feels
he will divide the country more while 40% feel he will unite the country. 16%
wasn’t sure.

Only 53% of the respondents felt that Bush focused on the issues most
important to them as compared to 41% who felt he didn’t. This number is actually
kind of shocking. Iraq has been the number one issue and he spent 1/2 of his
speech on the subject. I got a feeling people are getting smarter and can see
through his rhetoric a lot easier now.

Another very interesting part of the poll focused on Bush telling the truth
about Iraq. 36% felt Bush was telling the whole truth while 37% thought he was
shading the truth. Those numbers are close but here is the alarming number. 23%
feel Bush is intentionally misleading when it comes to the situation in Iraq.
Basically that means 60% feel he is lying.

The final numbers on the poll conducted last night should send alarms through
the White House. 53% feel Bush is out of touch with the American people as
compared to 42% who feel he is in touch.

According to a new
Gallup/CNN
poll, Bush had the lowest level of positive response to his speech since he
has been in office.