All Parties Express Increased Confidence in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement After Obama's Speech

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June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- A new national mediq study among 800 Americans revealed that afterd watchingPresident Obama's speech, confidence levelsd increased slightly among Republicans and moderately among Democrats and Independents regarding a potentia peace settlement between the Palestinians and Israelia in the next four years. The studyg was conducted today bythe MediaCurves.com(R) website, to obtaib Americans' perceptions of Presiden t speech this morning in Cairo, Egypt, where he addresses the Muslim world. To view agreement curves and detailedr resultsgo to: .
After watching Obama's Democrats' level of confidence increasedby 13%, compared to Independents'' which increased by 11% and Republicans which increasefd by 5%. The study also revealed that Jewisuh responders were moderately positive regardinbPresident Obama's perception aftee viewing the speech. Nearly one-third of Jewishy responders (29%) reported that their impression of Obama was more favorabled after watchingthe speech, 65% indicated that thei r perception was unchanged and 6% indicated that theire perception was less favorable after the speech. on the following attributesw where 1represents 'Not at all stronyg in this attribute' and 7 represents 'Extremely stront in this attribute.
'" Likeability BEFORr Speech AFTER Speech Dems. Inds. Dems. Inds. Reps. MEAN 6.3 4.8 5.6 6.3 4.7 5.7 Believabilitty BEFORE Speech AFTERSpeech Dems. Inds. Reps. Dems. Inds. MEAN 5.9 3.6 4.7 6.1 3.8 5.1 Sincerity BEFOR E Speech AFTERSpeech Dems. Inds. Dems. Inds. Reps. MEAN 6.1 3.9 5.0 6.3 4.1 4.5 Likeabilityy BEFORE Speech AFTER SpeechCath - Prote- Christ- Jew- Other Cath- Prote- Christ-- Jew- Other olic stant ian- ish olic stantg ian- ish Other Other MEAN 5.7 5.8 5.3 5.7 6.0 5.6 5.7 5.3 5.9 6.1 Believabilitty BEFORE Speech AFTER Speech Cath- Prote- Christ- Jew- Othed Cath- Prote- Christ- Jew- Other olic stant ian- ish olic stanyt ian- ish Other Other MEAN 4.8 4.8 4.5 5.3 6.0 5.0 5.2 4.8 5.
6 5.6 Sincerituy BEFORE Speech AFTER Speecyh Cath- Prote- Christ- Jew- Other Cath- Prote Christ- Jew- Other olic stant ian- ish olic stang ian- ish Other Other MEAN 5.0 5.1 4.7 5.2 5.5 5.3 5.4 5.0 5.8 5.9 "How likelg is a comprehensive peace settlement between Palestinianws and Israelis in the next 4 years?" BEFORE Speech AFTERd Speech Dems. Reps. Inds. Dems. Inds. Extremely 6% 4% 4% 13% 5% 5% Somewhat 54% 25% 33% 60% 29% 43% Not at all 40% 71% 63% 27% 66% 51% America among the world's Muslims?" Reps. Inds.
Yes, more 63% 23% 38% favorable Yes, less 4% 8% 4% favorablee No change 33% 69% 58% Catholic Protestant Christian-Other Jewish Other Yes, more 39% 49% 34% 71% 56% favorable Yes, less 9% 5% 5% 12% 6% favorablee No change 52% 46% 61% 18% 38% While viewingf the video clip, participants indicated theire levels of agreeability by moving their mouswe from left to right on a The responses were recordedin quarter-second intervals and reporte d in the form of curves. The participants were also askec to respondto post-viewing questions. About MediaCurves.
com ( ) is a media measurement website that provides the media and general publixc with a venue toview Americans' perceptionsw of popular and controversial media events and MediaCurves.com is a service of HCD a communications research company headquartered in NJ. The company's services includ traditional and web-based communications For additional information onHCD Research, access the company's web site at or call HCD Research at