Why were there no polls or focus groups by the networks after Trump's speech on border barrier?

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During his radio program this week, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh noticed something unusual about the ongoing border wall/shutdown fight debate: a lack of polls.

He specifically noted that no meaningful polls were published after President Donald Trump delivered an Oval Office address Tuesday in which he explained the ongoing battles to the public and implored Democrat to end them by agreeing to secure the southern U.S. border.

“There has been no polling data that we could find anywhere following Trump’s speech,” Limbaugh said Friday. “There weren’t any Frank Luntz focus groups with any undecideds out there.”

“They didn’t gather any Trump voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and ask them if they’re still behind Trump. The media didn’t do any of the stuff they usually do. We have no idea what the valued and very wise independents thought of Trump’s speech.”
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Correct. While the media ran polls prior to the president’s address, no polls appeared to be published afterward. In some cases, the media made dubious conclusions about the address without citing any factual evidence whatsoever.

“Did Trump’s Oval Office address change anything?” reads the headline of a piece from The Washington Post that the writer admits was written “approximately an hour before” the address.

Or at least the beginning part was written prior to the address. Toward the end, the writer included a post-address conclusion that the president’s address was “dreadful” and would change nothing. But no post-address polls were provided to back this unsubstantiated thesis.

Why is that? According to Limbaugh, it’s possible it’s because the polling data didn’t match their expectations: “I’m sure they [the media] did, in a flash way, sample public opinion [via polls]. [But] They didn’t get the negative reaction to Trump they hoped for.”
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Twitter lit up with criticism of Pelosi and Schumer.  That appears to be the main reaction to the speeches.  Others have pointed out that the media was frustrated by their inability to criticize the facts presented by Trump.  I think what is happening is that the Democrats are continuing to lose on this issue with people outside of their base.

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