Poll: Viewers react to the Presidents address.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/speech.poll/index.html

These polls to continually check in to see how the President is doing while in office and whether people approve of how he is doing sort of adds in a way to the candidate centered style. Especially with this article, it seems that it was not really focusing on peoples opinions about the choices being made or what was being implemented, it was not about the approval of the democratic party, but whether or not the President and his speech gave people more "hope". The media continues to cover how the President and his character effects the U.S. population and how it gives them "hope" as to whether or not they fully agree or disagree with his choices.