Flemington, NJ, September 11, 2009 – A series of national media studies conducted on President Obama’s speeches during his nine months in office revealed that Americans gave low ratings to his speeches earlier this week on education on health care reform.

The studies were conducted by HCD Research, using its MediaCurves.com® website from January 2009 to September 2009, to obtain Americans’ perceptions of various speeches given by President Barack Obama during his time in office.

The series of studies were conducted on major speeches given by President Obama to derive overall ratings for each speech. The ratings were based on a scale of 1-7, which was used to measure viewers’ perceptions of the president’s likeability, believability and sincerity after viewing each speech.

Following are the speeches that were tested during the past nine months. Click on each image below to view detailed results for each study.

Speech		Date of Speech	Overall Rating
	State of the Union (speech to Congress)	2/24/2009	5.5
	Obama on Al Qaeda	3/27/2009	4.9
	Obama on GM	6/1/2009	4.9
	Obama in Egypt	6/4/2009	5.4
	Obama Education Speech	9/8/2009	5.0
	Obama Health Care Speech to Congress	9/9/2009	5.0

President Obama’s highest rated speeches included his speech to congress on February 24, which earned a rating of 5.5, followed closely by his speech in Egypt on June 4, which earned a 5.4. Obama’s lowest ranking speeches included the speech on Al Qaeda on March 27 and his speech regarding General Motors on June 1, which both received a rating of 4.9. The second lowest among all tested speeches included Obama’s speech on education on September 8 and his speech to Congress regarding health care reform on September 9, which both received a score of 5.0.

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