Flemington, NJ, June 18, 2010 – A series of national media studies conducted on President Obama’s speeches during his seventeen months in office revealed that Americans ranked Tuesday’s speech on BP his worst speech yet.
The studies were conducted by HCD Research, using its MediaCurves.com® website from January 2009 to June 2010, 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 17 months.

President Obama’s highest rated speeches included his speech to congress in January 2009, which earned a rating of 5.5, followed by his speech on the Muslim world in June 2009, which earned a 5.1. Obama’s lowest ranking speeches included the speech on Wall Street Reform on April 2010, which earned a 4.8 rating and his speech regarding General Motors on June 2009, which received a rating of 4.9. Tuesday’s speech ranked the lowest of all his speeches, which received a rating 4.4.