Poll: Obama's Speech Boosts Approval On Health Care

A new CBS poll finds that President Obama's speech to Congress has had an immediate, positive effect for him on health care.

CBS re-interviewed yesterday the same respondents from a poll in late August. In that previous poll, Obama's approval on his handling of health care was only 40%, with 47% disapproval. Now, he's at 52%-38% with those same people.

The surveys also asked whether Obama has clearly explained his plans for health care reform. Two weeks ago, he was at only 33% yes, 61% now. Now that number is much improved, but still less than spectacular: Yes 42%, No 43%. Among speech-watchers, the number is Yes 58%, No 39%