Voters still like Clint Eastwood

[Locutus]

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, punk.


Clint Eastwood's bizarre speech at the Republican National Convention last week didn't go over so well with voters in Florida and North Carolina, but it didn't hurt his overall image, a pair of new polls show.

According to a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, 41 percent of Floridians said they had a negative opinion of Eastwood's 12-minute improvised riff, which featured the 82-year-old Academy Award-winning actor and director pretending to have a conversation with an invisible President Obama, represented by an empty chair. In North Carolina, 44 percent of voters found Eastwood's speech to be in poor taste. (Thirty-six percent of voters in both Florida and North Carolina said they had a favorable opinion of Eastwood's stunt.)

But those same voters also said they nonetheless a favorable opinion of Eastwood. In Florida, 72 percent had a favorable opinion of Eastwood compared to 11 percent with a negative one. (That includes a majority of Democrats; 58 percent had a favorable opinion of him, while 20 percent negative.) In North Carolina, 71 percent had a favorable overall opinion of Eastwood, compared to 14 percent negative.

"Those are certainly numbers any politician would die for," PPP said.

more Eastwoodiness here:

Voters still like Clint Eastwood | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

 

[Kreskin]

Not sure what the big deal is/was. In the grand scheme of things it really means nothing either way.

 

[WLDB]

Not sure what the big deal is/was. In the grand scheme of things it really means nothing either way.

Agreed. I found his little talk to be a bit funny and sad, but ultimately irrelevant in the race.

 

[Niflmir]

Agreed. I found his little talk to be a bit funny and sad, but ultimately irrelevant in the race.

I only watched the distillation of the speech through the Colbert Report and Daily Show. I must say I thought it was pure comedy gold.

 

[Spade]

I only watched the distillation of the speech through the Colbert Report and Daily Show. I must say I thought it was pure comedy gold.

Yep, the party of "family values", in prime time, engages a rambling and aged actor to amuse the partisan audience with allusions to "Go fu<k yourself!" Pure gold.

 

[tay]

I must say Clint left me dissilusioned but I will try to forget his performance, just like Mittens handlers are.........




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