re: #10 The Sanity Inspector

Of the randomly selected 522 speech viewers questioned by CBS, 83 percent said they approved of the proposals the President made. Just 17 percent disapproved — typical of the high support a president generally receives among those who choose to watch the State of the Union.

A self-selecting sample, then. Nice of CBS to point that out.

Not really sure what the other option for polling is? How can you poll people about the SOTU who didn’t actually watch the speech?