re: #22 Soap_Man

Pollster: Hello, do you have an opinion on the State of the Union?
Voter: Yes. It sucked. I strongly disapprove.
Pollster: Okay, first I will ask if you watched the whole speech.
Voter: I didn’t watch any of it.
Pollster: Than how do you have an opinion?
Voter: I don’t need to watch it. He’s an idiot.

Yeh, I suspect that a lot of the polling reflects opinions about the president, not the speech. In any year.