SURVEY SAYS: Will (Did) You Watch the SOTU?

Well, I didn’t ask people WHY they were planning to tune in – or how they felt about the update – but the split in responses was interesting, to say the least.      

First off, 18.9% said they were planning to watch, while another 13.2% said they would watch – for awhile anyway.  Roughly 11.3% said they would be watching it “off and on.”      

"No" Ways

Contrast that with the 7.5% who responded “no”, 9.4% who said they planned to “catch up” today (ostensibly because they weren’t watching tonight – though, as one reader noted, “All of the time spent/wasted standing and clapping drives me crazy. I'll wait to read about it in the news on Thursday.”), while 18.9% replied more emphatically (“Heck, no!”) that they would not be watching.         

About 7.5% weren’t sure if they would or not (in fairness, until 8:45 last night I wasn’t sure myself), and another 4.7% said that they couldn’t (“We have an out of town high school wrestling meet to watch.

It will be more exciting and I can catch the highlights of the president’s address on tomorrow's news,” noted one, while another said “Normally I would watch, but I'll be taking the Jeopardy! online contestant test tonight”).        

Of the remaining 17% - who opted for “other” as a response, the answer really seemed to be “no”, though for an interesting collection of reasons.